SITA opens £1m MRF in Poole
The plant will take cardboard and packaging from homes and businesses in Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch, Weymouth and Portland. Six new jobs will be created with the opening of the facility and SITA UK is predicting it will be fully up-to-speed within a few months.
John Hubbard, Depot Manager, said the Dorset MRF would satisfy a “real need” for recycling cardboard in the county. “Previously much of the cardboard went to landfill but, with the new pre-treatment regulations meaning businesses have to separate waste before sending it for disposal, that really is no longer an option,” he said.
Hire company strengthens recycling fleet
The company, which has its headquarters in Loughborough, has taken delivery of four complete RCVs from Warwick-based vehicle provided Dennis Eagle, and is aiming to bolster its 110-strong hire fleet even more later this year. The four new vehicles joining the specialist recycling vehicle fleet of 20 have included two standard-width and two narrow-bodied 18-tonne vehicles. Featuring driver plus three Elite 2 cab, each of the Phoenix 2 bodies has been equipped with Terberg Omni-Del bin lifts.
GPL Hire & Service's director, Malcolm Norton said: “We aim to significantly increase the size of our RCV spot hire fleet over the next 12 months, whilst also developing the range in terms of the types of vehicles that we have available and which our expanding customer base is demanding. In order to achieve this, we will be looking to develop our association with Dennis Eagle still further.”
Bradford firm fined for packaging offences
Magistrates in Bradford have fined computer accessories company UFP Ltd £18,000 for failing to contribute towards UK packaging waste recycling activities.
The company based on the Euroway Trading Estate in Bradford, pleaded guilty to nine charges at the hearing yesterday, and along with the fine was ordered to pay compensation of £2,304 and costs of £1,220 to the Environment Agency. Under the producer responsibility regulations, companies with a turnover above £2 million, who use at least 50 tonnes of packaging each year to sell their goods must pay for recycling to be carried out.
UFP had not registered with the Agency to carry out the required recycling in 2004, 2005 or 2006, avoiding costs of at least £6,000. The Agency said the offences showed a continuing breach of the law, rather than an isolated lapse, and that UFP had obtained a commercial advantage over their competitors by avoiding the cost of compliance.
Alutrade completes £1m expansion with Kramer loader
The specialist aluminium recycling company has invested in new equipment to recycle aluminium and steel cans – including an Eldan shredder – but with around half of those received being in a crushed state, the weight of the average bucket load proved too much for its existing loader. Alutrade operations director Chris George spotted a Kramer machine at work on a visit to Switzerland.
Following a demonstration, a 750T model was duly delivered to Alutrade by local Kramer dealer ICP of Stoke-on-Trent, in time to start feeding both crushed and whole cans into the new shredding and separation plant at a rate of around 500 tonnes a month. The loader is powered by an oil-cooled Deutz diesel engine developing 44 kW (60 hp), with hydrostatic transmission and a maximum load-over height of 4.51 m with its arm in the fully extended position.
TCSR proposes UK's first thermal desorption plant
Bristol-based Thermal and Chemical Soil Remediation Ltd has submitted a planning application seeking to develop a soil treatment facility near Nuneaton.
It claims the facility will be the UK's first thermal desorption plant, able to treat 120,000 tonnes of soil a year at the Judkins Quarry site, which is owned by Waste Recycling Group. The company, which also has an office in the Czech Republic, said its technology applies heat to soils to remove organic contaminants. Soil is heated to 450 degrees centigrade, but is not combusted, and since the material can then be used again as soil, the company describes its process as a form of re-use.
It said: “This is a major development for the UK's developing waste treatment sector, and signals a further shift away from landfill. The facility will principally serve the development sector by recycling soils from brownfield land enabling the development of affordable housing. The plant will be able to treat 120,000 tonnes of soil a year and is designed to achieve a near 100% recycling rate.”
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