Recycling as an industrial input, not an environmental service

The feedstock is the project

A line rated at twenty tonnes a day in a catchment that yields eight is a line running at forty per cent from its first day. Mapping the sources always precedes choosing the equipment.

Purity sets the price

The difference between 95% and 99% output purity is not only technical — it is the difference between the markets the output can be sold into.

Three numbers settled early

• Collection and transport cost per tonne
• Water and energy consumption per tonne
• The virgin material price, which caps what the recycled material can fetch