Speaking to letsrecycle.com this week, GW Plastic Recycling Ltd said that it was hoping to “quadruple” operations at its plastics recycling plant in Grimsby, North-East Lincolnshire.
The family-owned company also plans to double operations at its larger flagship Cannock plant in Staffordshire and collect a wider range of materials under a 750,000 investment plan for 2007-08.
Director Mark Gilbert said: “We hope to expand our sites and expand the types of material we take, so we can bid for local authority contracts as well as industry work. With changes to landfill year on year we envisage more and more demand for our services.”
Grimsby
At GW Plastic Recycling's Grimsby plant, which opened in April, the company can already process 2,000 tonnes of polystyrene packaging, 8,000 tonnes of card and 3,000 tonnes of soft and rigid plastic a year.
Material is collected from local industry around Hull and Grimsby before cardboard and plastic is baled using HSM balers and polystyrene is compressed into briquettes using Green Bank technology. The material is then exported by boat to Rotterdam, and on to mainland Europe and the Far East.
Mr Gilbert said: “The Grimsby site on the fish docks is very small at the moment and the plan is we would actively work to sort out larger premises in the town.”
At the Cannock plant, meanwhile, GW Plastic Recycling currently takes around 10,000 tonnes and 5,000 tonnes of plastics a year, much of which comes from the automotive industry.
Mr Gilbert said: “We're working to expand what we do here dramatically. We are also looking to also expand our fleet of trailers.”
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