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tåtervinning has offered capacity to parent PET bottles; colored PET bot- talk to each other, optimizing the
other countries. Starting in 2024, Site tles; polystyrene (PS); expanded PS sorting process.
Zero will receive most of Finland's (EPS); polyvinyl chloride (PVC); two Reception capacity: 200,000 tons per
household plastics. grades of mixed polyolefin laminates; year of mixed plastic packaging from
Impressive statistics of the Site Zero and metal and non-plastic rejects. households (previous plant, 100,000
recycling facility. Sorting efficiency: Up to 95% of the tons per year).

Size: 60,000 square meters (645,835 received plastics can be sorted out Sorting speed: 1,000 packages per
sq ft); previous plant 15,000 sqm and recycled in the next step. second, 42 tons per hour.
(161,458) sq ft. Sorting sensors: 60 near-infrared
Sorting capacity: 12 types of plastic (NIR) sensors; comparable plants
vs three to four types at comparable have an average of 5 NIR sensors and
plants. the previous plant had 19 sensors.

Polymers sorted: rigid polypropylene Advanced control system: fully auto-
(PP); rigid high-density PP; flexible mated process, real-time optimiza-
PP; flexible low-density polyethylene tion, artificial intelligence. The differ-
(LDPE); transparent PET trays; trans- ent parts of the plant influence and

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