What is the HT recycling project?

This year our staff, students and parents have been collecting plastic bottle tops to support our new recycling project.  Students have converted over 100Kg of plastic which might have otherwise ended up in landfill into useful products and components to use in their Design & Technology projects.  But!  How have they achieved this you might ask?

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Step 1. Collect and sort

During our lunchtime and after school clubs our team of students have been sorting the thousands of bottle tops into separate colours. 

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Step 2. Shred

Using our new granulator machine the students shred the bottle tops into fine plastic fragments small enough to be re-processed into new products.

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Step 3. Mould

The small shredded granules can then be loaded into our new injection moulding machine where the plastic is melted down and injected in on an aluminum mould.

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