Most recently the projects operating at a full scale includes
liquefaction units using continuous stirred tank reactors, at Niigata
and Sapporo, Mikasa works, Coke oven pyrolysis by Nippon Steel
Corp, high-pressure gasification by EBARA-UBE, ASR gasification at
Aomori (Ebara Co.), Glycolysis of polyethylene terephthalate
bottles by Teijin [77].
Dumfries Plastics Recycling (DPR), a subsidiary of British
Polythene Industries, is a SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection
Act) accredited recycling plant. DPR can recycle 5000 tonnes/
annum of post-use agricultural stretch film, the only unit in the
world capable of doing so. The DPR Washing Plant can also recycle
other post-use polyethylene films and is designed to handle
heavily contaminated films (some films contain over 50% sand/
soil/water