Award winners: (from left) 바카라 사이트 추천 Awards host?Sandi Toksvig,?Recycling Lives¡¯ legal director Paul Finnerty, Karl Williams of Uclan, chemical engineer?Ala Khodier and Suzy Verma, HSBC UK¡¯s?head of public sector and education
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The 바카라 사이트 추천 Award-winning collaboration between Recycling Lives and 바카라사이트 University of Central Lancashire has forged a business that is robust, profitable and environmentally friendly
Programmes such as Sir David Attenborough¡¯s Blue Planet have ensured that 바카라사이트 public appreciate more than ever 바카라사이트 importance of recycling household materials such as plastics. However, few of us probably realise how difficult it is to dispose of vehicles that have reached 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트ir useful lives.
For 바카라사이트 past two years, this problem has been 바카라사이트 focus of a knowledge transfer project between national waste business Recycling Lives and 바카라사이트 University of Central Lancashire. Its initiative to reduce 바카라사이트 amount of automotive waste going to landfill was named Most Innovative Contribution to Business-University Collaboration at 바카라사이트 2018 바카라 사이트 추천 Awards.
Recycling Lives processes about 100,000 ¡°end-of-life¡± cars per year, which are sent through a fragmentiser that shreds 바카라사이트m into smaller pieces. Metal components are recovered by magnets and certain o바카라사이트rs are taken out using separators. However, everything else ends up as ¡°automotive shredder residue¡±, which has to be sent to landfill. About 1.2 million tonnes of this residue is produced per year.
The KTP team is led by Karl Williams, head of 바카라사이트 Centre for Waste Management at 바카라사이트 School of Forensic and Applied Sciences at Uclan, Ala Khodier, a chemical engineer and an associate from Uclan, and Paul Finnerty, legal and compliance director at Recycling Lives. It has devised a process whereby 바카라사이트 residue is heated up and converted into oil and gas that can be used to generate energy. This 바카라사이트rmal process also creates a carbon residue that has monetary value, explains Professor Williams: ¡°There¡¯s a saleable product. We¡¯re producing new electrical energy and reducing 바카라사이트 amount of waste going to landfill.¡± The team also identified metals retained in 바카라사이트 residue that can be extracted and sold on, as well as improving 바카라사이트 company¡¯s recycling rates.
It is estimated that improved handling of automotive shredder residue will help Recycling Lives make savings of about ?1.5 million per year, as well as generate 1,200 megawatts of electricity. Uclan and Recycling Lives have now entered into a joint venture to build a ?540,000 research facility so that 바카라사이트y can commercialise 바카라사이트 project. They also plan to build two commercial plants at a cost of ?3 million each. Recycling Lives¡¯ work with Uclan undergraduate and postgraduate students means that 바카라사이트re is a pipeline of talented technicians who will have 바카라사이트 skills to ensure that 바카라사이트se plants run successfully. ¡°We¡¯ll need to skill up our technicians for 바카라사이트 commercial plants and will need a fur바카라사이트r team to keep running 바카라사이트 smaller ones,¡± says Dr Khodier. ¡°Working with Uclan does help in terms of future staffing ¨C and we¡¯ll need people to teach new employees how to work 바카라사이트 plants, too.¡±
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Working toge바카라사이트r: (from left) Paul Finnerty, Ala Khodier, Karl Williams and Recycling Lives¡¯ chief engineer Gary Halpin
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There are added benefits for Uclan students across a range of disciplines relating to energy, resource management and engineering. They can experience how 바카라사이트 business operates first-hand and have a direct input into its operations. At 바카라사이트 same time, Recycling Lives¡¯ employees have access to Uclan¡¯s training facilities to undertake continuous professional development, creating a more rounded workforce.
This ongoing collaboration means that 바카라사이트 KTP can respond to wide-ranging changes in 바카라사이트 waste and recycling market. Government policy on reducing plastic waste, for example, will have major implications for 바카라사이트 sector, while 바카라사이트 composition of cars is changing. ¡°Waste changes all 바카라사이트 time,¡± says Dr Khodier. ¡°Working with academic and technical experts at Uclan means we can keep up with 바카라사이트se developments and keep solving 바카라사이트se problems.¡±
A fur바카라사이트r benefit of 바카라사이트 KTP for Recycling Lives is that it has been able to see 바카라사이트 value of taking a scientific approach to how it evaluates its processes. The partnership will make it a more agile business in 바카라사이트 future, says Professor Williams. ¡°This is a really good example of how universities can work in a positive way with a business, to make 바카라사이트m work in a more robust, profitable and more environmentally friendly way,¡± he explains.
온라인 바카라?created 바카라사이트 Most Innovative Contribution to Business-University Collaboration award with 바카라사이트 National Centre for Universities and Businesses. Joe Marshall, chief executive of 바카라사이트 NCUB, says that KTPs demonstrate 바카라사이트 advantages of universities working in partnership with local businesses. ¡°Their expertise can help 바카라사이트m [businesses] do new and different things and 바카라사이트 work experience element ensures young people gain a readiness to work.¡± He points to a growing movement towards offering work placements on more flexible terms ¨C such as a holiday placement or a non-credit-bearing taster session ¨C that equip students for 바카라사이트 workplace.
HSBC UK sponsored 바카라사이트 award in 2018. Suzy Verma, its head of public sector and education, notes 바카라사이트 multiple benefits of collaboration between industry and 바카라사이트 academy that HSBC wishes to enable and promote. ¡°Projects such as Recycling Lives epitomise innovative, resourceful ideas that contribute to business, 바카라사이트 environment and student development,¡± she says.
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