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Uni-Cycle © Uni-Cycle© The Complete Recycling System David Dean [email protected] 020 8542 2434 07962 802 540
Uni Cycle The Complete Recycling System
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- Uni-Cycle The Complete Recycling System David Dean
[email_address] 020 8542 2434 07962 802 540
- The Uni-Cycle process
- Improving reduce, re-use and recycle
- A unique process that saves resources by doubling the amount of
plastic recycling
- Deals with bio-degradable products for the first time
- A 5 step plan from birth to completion
- Unique recycling system
- Increases the amount of plastics recycled
- Helps consumers looked for plastic they can recycle
- Increases the amount of recyclable products that waste
processors take by improving the waste process
- Creates a very simple marketing campaign to switch consumers on
to plastic recycling
- Aims to change the laws making all consumer products recyclable
with clearer labelling
- Why the Uni-Cycle quest
- Oil based plastic is an increasingly rare and expensive
resource
- Only 20% of plastic is recycled in the UK (EU Directive doesnt
improve on this figure!)
- Most plastic ends up in Landfill
- Plastic might be used for just 10 minutes but take 100 years or
longer to degrade!
- Biodegradable products disrupt the systemuntil now
- Step 1 - The Uni-Cycle solution
- Introduce Colour By Numbers
- Plastic recycling numbers in triangles are hard to find
- They are even harder to pick up at the waste disposal end!
- The Uni-Cycle Solution: Colour by numbers . Bright colours
backing up the code numbers are easier to see
- Use the colours of the rainbow. 7 primary colours
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- Integrating biodegradable
- Biodegradable might be a good idea
- Being identical to plastics, when they get into the waste
system they could be sold as plastics & deteriorate reducing
value
- Identifying biodegradable by number and colour separates them
from plastic polymers that can be recycled = Biodegradable
0 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0
- Step 2 Retailers to be part of the process
- Recycling information can be more prominent:
- Recycling detail can be front of brand & backed by rainbow
colours where possible
- Coloured triangle with usual polymer type number
- Next to the products price on the shelf could be a recycling
description?
- Focus on major component of packaging
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- Step 3 - Consumer campaign
- - When consumers bin their empties then they should following 4
simple steps:
- Check unique waste collectors Uni-Cycle poster
- Can the plastic be recycled by waste collector?
- Drop into the correct recycling receptacle
- Using the unique Uni-Cycle poster
- there will be more recyclable materials
- put in the recycling bins
- The Uni-Cycle poster
- The Uni-Cycle Circle Poster is unique to every Waste Collector.
Consumer get one annually and display in kitchen
- Uses the wheel of a Uni-Cycle split into 8 pies
- 7 colours, 7 bright colours of the rainbow easy! (+ 0 for
PLA)
- Posters are produced centrally for lowest cost and least
effort
- Authorities order via a simple website
- Type in what can be collected for recycling & artwork will
appear on screen then printed
- Consumers will see green for what can be collected and red for
what cannot be. Always by number / colour not product
- Step 4 - Changing the laws
- Resource efficiency will not be achieved without a change in
the law
- The colour by numbers recycling bill is a simple change
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- Step 5 - The waste collection system
- Consumers cant recycle if the waste collector wont recycle
it
- Many waste processors dont recycle all that they can
- No market for the materials or
- But the Uni-Cycle team will work with Processors to increase
recycling
- They are the weak link because landfill is profitable
- Technology drives recycling
- Most recycled products can be processed and sorted using
optical reading technology
- The industry has to buy into technology to boost plastic
recycling
- Uni-Cycle will audit the waste processor and advise them how to
recycle more products using technology as well as updating their
processes
- This task is long but necessary as this is one of the major
barriers to a better use of resources
- Uni-Cycle - Conclusion
- Colours by numbers to be implemented on paper based labels
- Make recycling symbols prominent
- Create Universal Uni-Cycle poster
- Lowest price as ordered and design online
- Each authority will get own poster
- Work with waste processors to put recycling at the centre of
their operations