F & R Cawley, which provides recycling services to business and industry, announced that the facility at Covent Garden Close, Luton, which will be capable of processing 100,000 tonnes of material a year.
 Staff from Oliver Adams bakery stand with Jacqui Maccaig of F & R Cawley (second from the right) next to a skip of food waste for recycling |
The plant, which will sort recyclable material from local businesses, will complement Cawley's existing materials recycling facility in Wellingborough. Its launch, scheduled for the second half of 2007, is designed to coincide with the company's 60th anniversary.
Jon Cawley, managing director at the company, told letsrecycle.com: “We are very excited about the new MRF opening. We are deeply committed to preventing as much waste as possible from going to landfill and the new MRF will keep is at the forefront of recycling, by enabling us to increase the tonnage we can accept from our customers and double our recycling rates.”
Technology
F& R Cawley, which employs over 200 people at depots in Luton, Milton Keynes and Wellingborough, already provides business waste services to companies throughout Bedfordshire, North Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire.
Mr Cawley said: “It's our aim to achieve a throughput of over 2,000 tonnes per week at the new MRF and we are still looking at all the technology available that will help us realise this. However, the basic plant will consist of pre-sorts, pre-screens, trommel magnets and air knives designed to automate as far as possible the recycling process.”
Digestion
Another project being launched by F& R Cawley is a partnership allowing food waste to be sent to an anaerobic digestion plant run by Bedfordshire agricultural company Bedfordia.
The facility, which capable of generating biogas from over 30,000 tonnes of food waste a year, turns the waste into biogas which can be used to make renewable energy.
Thomas Adams, managing director of Northampton bakery Oliver Adams, which has used the anaerobic digestion service, said: “Recycling is not only good for the environment but it makes good business sense. We chose F & R Cawley because they offer the best waste management services locally and, most importantly, have the option of disposing our food waste to anaerobic digestion.”
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