A PLASTIC recycling facility that will operate continuously, employing nearly 60 people, has been approved for vacant land at Cardonald Business Park.

Glasgow planners have given Vinanian Developments Ltd the go-ahead for the plant at Site 1, Fifty Pitches Road, Glasgow.

It will operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, employing 56 people working on continuous shifts.

When fully operational, the plant will receive up to six lorry loads of plastic waste bales per day.

The site will have a main production hall and an administration and welfare block.

A statement submitted with the application explained: “The building is designed around a state-of-the-art production process for the recycling of waste plastics. The process generates almost no emissions.”

It continues: “The proposals will make a positive contribution to the immediate area. The site is appropriate for the proposed use which will provide an exemplary facility of this type which will make a valuable contribution to the options available to improve recycling and reduce plastic waste going to landfill.”

“The proposals will make a positive contribution to the immediate area. The site is appropriate for the proposed use which will provide an exemplary facility of this type which will make a valuable contribution to the options available to improve recycling and reduce plastic waste going to landfill.”

The facility will recycle plastic feedstock. There will be limited handling of waste materials on site as the plastic will be delivered after being sorted, washed and baled at existing centres…elsewhere.

It will generate:

• Carbon char which is then subject to a green conversion process to produce green carbon black powder for use in industry.

• Syngas which is shipped off site for onward conversion to methanol and blending with fuel oils.

• Distillation oil which is further distilled on site to produce a form of diesel.