Premier Waste extends business waste offering

Durham-based Premier Waste Management has extended its offering to businesses with a service which it claims will save companies money by reducing the amount of time they have to spend preparing recyclables for collection.

The waste company is making the collection service for baled and palletised recyclables available to businesses across the North East, targeting firms who have received stock on pallets that is now surplus, as well as those who have their own baling operations for waste materials.

Premier Waste claims that as well as saving companies such as printers, mailing businesses and warehouses time and therefore money, the service will also help them to increase their recycling rates.

It is also targeting distribution warehouses, factories and large retail outlets which Premier says often have large amounts of cardboard from packaging which can be taken away and recycled.

The company noted that pallet or baled loads of cardboard could be collected free of charge, or, in the case of mill-sized bales of material, could actually generate a payment for customers.

Pallet loads

Commenting on the new service, the company's divisional director, Adrian Denton, said: “As the New Year starts businesses may find that they have pallet loads of unused catalogues and other material dated from last year that is no longer needed.

“Premier Waste can take this material and recycle it back into paper. If the material is confidential we can also shred it before recycling it.”

He added: “In addition to the palletised paper and cardboard that we can recycle, plastic sheeting and plastic bottles can also be recycled. This is an invaluable service to the region's businesses which can increase their recycling and save them landfill costs.”

Premier began running the pallet and bale collection service on a smaller scale last year, collecting 50 tonnes a month of material – a figure the company claimed shows how widely used the service already is.