QMRE NOMINATED FOR GREEN BUSINESS OF THE YEAR AWARDS

QM Recycled Energy (QMRE) has been nominated by Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce for the British Chambers of Commerce Business Award 'The Planet Saver - Green business of the year'.

The Kent-based firm is a leading light in recycling waste plastic into oil and then back into renewable plastic. QMRE co-founder and joint managing director Tim StClair-Pearce commented, "We are delighted with this nomination as it helps shine a light on the tremendous efforts the QMRE team have made in tackling the problems caused by plastic waste pollution. This recognition will help spur us on to even greater efforts."

QMRE has a demonstration and development site located in Fawkham, Kent to which scores of interested businesses have visited in order to learn more about the firm's processes for recycling plastic in advance of placing orders for the system.

The firm has embarked on a programme of creating a nationwide network of recycling centres. The process involves feeding cleaned and size-reduced plastics into a system that heats the plastic to around 450 degrees centigrade utilising thermolysis technology. At this stage the material depolymerises and reverts to its original hydrocarbon state.  The resultant gases are cooled and form oil and a small amount of residual carbon ash which is used to clean the gases and reduce any CO2 emission. The process is, uniquely, self-powered and fully electronic. Additional processes transform the oil into renewable plastic thus lessening the need to rely on virgin plastics.

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Editors' Note: For further information contact Richard Burke, QMRE marketing communications on 07711 444 198. E: rb@qmre.ltd.

Attached: QMRE media background; image of oil from process