Norfolk business recycling scheme takes off
The Great Yarmouth firm has been collecting paper and cardboard on a weekly basis since the beginning of October, in a service covering a 25 mile radius also taking in Norwich and Lowestoft. The service offers businesses a choice of wheeled container or green bag collections, with material taken to the company's recycling facility at Yarmouth's Harfreys Industrial Estate, before going on to paper recycler MW White in Norwich. Whitbread's Premier Travel Inn sites around Norwich and Lowestoft are already on the scheme.
WT Waste deputy manager Gary Thurtle said: “Customers are now demanding a wider range of more environmentally friendly services to save money and boost their green credentials. We are a small, local business and as such are able to offer an efficient, cost-effective service that larger companies are not always able to provide.”
Firm develops “low-cost” picking alternative
The new £16,000 picking table includes a 1200mm chevron picking belt, an enlarged feed hopper with impact section and a self-contained hydraulic powerpack and diesel engine. It can also be manufactured with a tarpaulin cover or insulated cladding and overband magnet. The product, which has been designed as an alternative to more expensive picking stations, is also available for hire from the company based at Darvel.
Spokesman Frank Hill explained: “Recycling equipment is expensive and not all can afford it – we have developed this product as cost effective as possible while allowing the maximum amount of space for recycling.”
Sandwich maker praised for recycling
Sandwich firm Hain Celestial Group has won an award for recycling on-site food and packaging waste by sending it to Bedfordshire AD plant Biogen.
At an awards ceremony in London yesterday, recognition also went to the founder of a Sheffield community environment group, Danny Piermattei, as well as Envar Ltd, which was rewarded for a project involving ash waste from a energy-from-waste plant that takes paper sludge from the Shotton Paper Mill.
Steve Lee, chief executive of the awards organisers Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, said: “Every contribution in the battle to reduce waste and improve resource efficiency is important.”
Awards for Welsh community groups
The first awards of Cylch – the Community Recycling Network in Wales – saw awards going to Rhondda furniture re-use project Too Good to Waste, Ammanford-based biodiesel producers Sundance Renewables and Newport city council.
The awards were decided from 36 entries, based on a voting system “open to any interested party or stakeholder and run on a rigorously designed online and / or postal voting system”.
Expansion for Titech
Norwegian-owned sorting equipment supplier TiTech VisionSort Ltd has appointed Brian Gist as sales engineer as it seeks to expand operations in the UK.
The company, which is part of the Tomra Group and recently merged with German firm CommoDas, provides automated sorting systems for recycling plants, which use optical systems to separate materials like paper, plastic and metal as well as electrical waste. Mr Gist previously worked for Sims Group UK, developing processes to recover higher value materials from waste.
Mr Gist said: “The recycling and waste industry needs to develop quickly to respond to growing demand for high value recycled materials and TiTech is in a prime position to be part of that revolution. It's a great opportunity and I'm excited to be part of it.”
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