Hadley Recycling installs retaining wall
Hadley Recycling & Waste Management has installed a retaining wall system at its new £1.5 million recycling centre in Theale, Berkshire.
The 110 metre concrete wall has been supplied by Poundfield Products, and will be installed within the main waste reception area.
The firm already uses Poundfield’s Alfablocs on its nearby site where they have demonstrated an ability to “withstand a fair amount of abuse”. These original wall sections will be moved to the new site to form an external storage bay for recycled wood.
The 90 new ‘A’ shaped Alfabloc wall sections are each 3m high by 1220mm wide are interconnected by bolted-on steel straps in order to spread loads horizontally.
Specialising in skip hire, Hadley has renewed its emphasis on recycling, with the plant expected to up to 150,000 tonnes of mainly construction and demolition waste each year.
Remondis increases UK collection capacity
Recycling business Remondis has introduced three new 26-tonne trucks and one articulated vehicle to its waste fleet.
Operating on a shared load basis, the vehicles can carry 26 pallets when connected to a drag trailer. It means Remondis will be able to provide customers with greater capacity and flexibility to manage hazardous waste pick-ups.
Marcus Bauer, joint managing director of Remondis UK, said: “Since we unveiled our state-of-the-art recycling and treatment facility in Merseyside back in 2013, we have been continually investing to deliver even more effective, complete and compliant hazardous waste solutions for our customers across the UK.”
He added: “By growing our fleet in this way, we are now able to offer even greater flexibility for organisations that are required to dispose of hazardous waste – whether it is a full truck load, by the pallet or in small drums. The shared load solution means that customers can manage their waste streams on a timescale that fits their business needs at a cost-effective price.”
Suez recycles vehicles for internal hire
Waste firm Suez has converted a batch of retired waste vehicles into an internal hire fleet to service its commercial trade waste fleet.
The four vehicles, with an average age of 7.3 years, had previously been used on a municipal contract.
The refuse trucks were sent to Refuse Vehicle Solutions (RVS), which inspected and refurbished the packer assemblies and bodies. All worn parts were replaced and defects corrected before the repaired areas were repainted.
James Griffin, technical manager – fleet at Suez, said: “We took the decision to refurbish these vehicles because it’s important to us that we practice what we preach – to reuse resources wherever possible.”
WLWA selects Integrated Waste Data system
The West London Waste Authority (WLWA) has selected opensky’s Integrated Waste Data Management System to drive efficiencies in how it manages recycling across its six boroughs.
WLWA, which represents Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames, has awarded a five-year contract to the data firm to customise and support how it receives waste data from the boroughs and their contractors.
Due to go live towards the end of 2016, the system will help reduce the number of data files updated by staff to one single source of waste data for all boroughs, and calculate haulage based on weights pricing.
It will also move reconciliations of invoices from a manual to automated process and provide automatic data cleansing during uploads.
Jay Patel, Head of Finance & Performance, said: “We were looking for a web based solution to manage waste data, validate invoices and efficiently provide management / financial information. IWDMS ticks all the boxes and we are now looking forward to implementing the solution with opensky during 2016.”
Fulcrum launches biogas connection service
Utility infrastructure provider Fulcrum has launched a biogas connection service – pipelines which connect biogas plants to the UK gas distribution network.
The Sheffield-based firm traditionally designs and installs new gas and utility infrastructure to domestic properties and businesses.
But, the new service sees Fulcrum’s installation process reversed to enable energy produced by biogas generators to be fed into the UK network via the installation of new gas infrastructure.
There are currently around 400 operational biogas plants in the UK, with ADBA expecting further growth in the coming years.
Martin Donnachie, Fulcrum chief executive, said: “Biogas is becoming an important part of the UK’s energy mix and there is real potential for it to take an even greater role in the future. Fulcrum is perfectly placed to support the growth of the industry by implementing our extensive gas infrastructure experience to the sector assisting existing operators and new market entrants with the construction and commissioning of new plant infrastructure.”
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