Located at the company's Linwood depot, near Paisley, the new picking station will handle lighter fractions of waste separated in an earlier process. The baling plant will produce bales of the extracted material in the right size to be sold to mills. An additional eight jobs has been created at the new plant, with more expected as the plant expands.
Commenting on the new plant, sales manager Charlie Devine said: “Material that was going to go to landfill will now be segregated and put into the existing waste stream to be recycled.”
The new facilities come just a few weeks after the Tracey Group started up its glass reprocessing arm, Allglass Reprocessors, which is currently going through trials and is in the running to gain accredited status. The plant will be able to handle 15,000 to 20,000 tonnes of glass a year using state-of-the-art technology that means bottles will not need labels or even corks removed before entering the system.
“We take mixed glass that hasn't been separated, which local authorities couldn't otherwise have got rid of, and turn it into aggregate,” Mr Devine said. “There's some possibility of turning it into decorative garden products, but mostly at the moment it's for aggregates.”
PRNs
One of Scotland's largest recycling and waste management companies, the Tracey Group handles about 1.1m tonnes of waste a year overall.
The company can issue packaging waste recovery notes because it turns a proportion of the materials into a range of recycled products, including a popular wood chip product for gardens.
Andrew Corry, Tracey Timber Recycling's general manager, said: “We recycle more than 50,000 tonnes of timber every year, a portion of which is manufactured into products such as Decorchip and animal bedding products, on which we can claim PRNs.”
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