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Bath chosen as site for UK’s first pilot plant for recycling plastics lab waste

The facility is a re-purposed greenhouse, so even the building is recycled!

A company co-founded by a University of Bath graduate has opened the UK’s first pilot plant that can recycle up to 60 per cent of plastics lab waste, to make back into new lab consumables. LabCycle hopes the technology could be scaled up in the future to recycle waste from healthcare, research and commercial labs that…

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