Residents of Alvaston will join the Derby city council’s Rethink Rubbish recycling scheme next month.
An additional 6,000 households will join the scheme, which is now offered to a total of 48,000 homes. The council is aiming to reach a 30% household waste recycling rate by March next year. Since the scheme started in April 2003, the rate has risen from 12% to the current 21.5%.
The scheme involves residents putting recyclable newspapers, glass, plastic bottles, cans textiles and green waste in various containers and non-recyclable rubbish in their existing black wheeled bins. These are emptied on alternate weeks.
Cllr Sara Bolton, cabinet member for environment and direct services, said: “Our 30% target is one of the toughest in the country, but, thanks to the massive support of residents, we are well on the way. Next year we will be making the scheme available in even more areas of Derby.”
Swansea food company brings in Inetec food waste reprocessing equipment
Swansea-based food manufacturer Ethnic Cuisine has brought in food waste equipment company Inetec to provide the machinery to deal with its food waste.
Ready meal supplier Ethnic Cuisine has ordered an Inetec TT44000 machine, along with associated equipment in order to process the company's food waste and packaging.
The Inetec thermo-mechanical process uses a combination of heat and physical abrasion to break down the food and packaging waste into a dry, stable biofuel. Due to its high calorific value, the biofuel can be converted into energy in the form of steam, hot water, heating or refrigeration.
At Ethnic Cuisine, the food waste to be processed consists of packaged ready-meals, rice and vegetables and sludge.
The company said: “Waste will be processed to energy on site, avoiding rising landfill, transport and energy costs.”
Recycling facility lightens its load
An expanding recycling facility near Darlington has installed a new loader for sorting the main bulk of its incoming material such as metals, aggregate and wood chips.
Stonegrave's Aycliffe recycling facility is utilising the new 17 tonne Terex-Atlas loader for the facility at Aycliffe Quarry.
The machine is a mixed-specification 'hybrid' taking the base of a standard Atlas 1705 mobile wheeled excavator, with the elevating cab and controls of a conventional Atlas 'M1' handling machine.
Operations manager at the site, Bruce Whitley said: “This is a very busy, expanding, self-contained recycling facility, one of the biggest in the North-East.
“This is now the key machine for sorting the main bulk of incoming material and provides a high capacity throughput onto the main shredder,” he added.
The machinery can operate with a variety of front-end equipment for other re-handling, loading and digging duties and is equipped with a generator for magnet operation, and auxiliary hydraulics for other attachments.
All change at Otto
Logistics company Otto Lift is changing its name to HN Logistics Systems UK after acquiring Huffermann.
HN Logistics will supply the waste industry with a range of lifts and vehicles, including the Otto and Huffermann ranges of rear, side and front-end collection systems and demountables.
All Otto staff and premises remain in place but will be expanded in-line with the growing product and service range that HN Logistic offers.
In addition to its engineering functions, HN Logistics will also offer financing for Local Authorities and private contractors.
Otto Ltd, the bin and container company will remain a separate entity, although it will continue to work in close collaboration with HN Logistic.
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