Waste management company Greenstar UK has announced a host of new facilities and services as part of its ongoing expansion programme.

The company has opened a commercial depot at Camberley in Surrey, a bulking site in Derby which will soon feature a new MRF, and has started offering a commercial recycling service in Dunstable.

Surrey

Material collected at new sites in Camberley and Derby will be sent to the Aldridge MRF for processing

With three RCV vehicles and 11 staff , the bulking station at Camberley shares a site with Greenstar's municipal service subsidiary Verdant, which provides recycling, refuse and green waste services for Surrey Heath borough council.

The facility enables Greenstar to amass dry recyclables collected in the southern Home Counties before taking them to be sorted at the its 300,000 tonnes capacity MRF at Aldridge near Birmingham.

In December, the Camberley site will also be the first in Greenstar's network to offer Green Space containers as large as 6.1m cubed to help those businesses with large amounts of mixed recyclates.

The Green Space commercial mixed recycling service is a scheme aimed at helping businesses and high street retailers to meet pre-treatment obligations and boost recycling rates.

Derby

Some 150 miles further north in Derby, Greenstar has opened a new waste transfer station on Victory Road with four staff which currently provides a bulking facility for dry recyclables, such as plastics, cans, cardboard and paper, and glass collected from Derby city council, prior to dispatching them to Aldridge for processing.

The warehouse-style site is also being expanded to provide a materials recycling facility (MRF) with fifteen staff which will capable of sorting 50,000 tonnes of recyclables a year and which is expected to open in early 2009, as the Derby city council council switches to a single-stream comingled recycling collection service.

This will also process newspapers, magazines and textiles collected from Derby's bring bank sites. There are also plans to use the facility for commercial and industrial recyclables.

Greenspace

In the third of its planned developments, the Green Space service, which provides businesses with either sacks, 660 or 1,100 litre wheeled bins, has also been expanded to operate out of Greenstar's Dunstable MRF, from which it can serve Buckinghamshire, Bedforshire, Hertfordshire and, particularly, Luton and Milton Keynes.

Nigel Manning, managing director of Greenstar UK's recycling business, said: "Our strategy to create a national network of recyclable collection, bulking and processing facilities continues apace. These latest developments will complement Greenstar's super MRFs at Aldridge and in North London, the latter opening in mid-2009.

"Our Green Space initiative to help Britain's commercial sector boost recycling will continue to be a key part of our geographic business expansion, and Camberley and Dunstable are good examples of that initiative," he added.