May Gurney invests in balers at MRFs
Designed, manufactured and installed by Kilkenny Mechanical Handling Systems Ltd, all three new MRFs have been installed in response to kerbside collection contracts to sort and separate materials such as mixed aluminium, steel cans, foil and plastic containers, along with the capability to bale cardboard intermittently during the separation process.
According to Jarshire, he May Gurney decision on the TR1052 two-ram baler is a recognition of its status as baler of choice for MRF and RDF plants.
L&S installs soil screening machine
Hampshire-based skip hire specialist L&S Waste Management has invested more than 250,000 in a new high-tech waste processing plant. Using a process called air density separation (ADS) this unit has been specifically designed to recycle the residual fine materials recovered from construction skip waste.
The ADS machine processes these residues referred to by the waste industry as trommel fines. It separates and recovers this material into reusable commodities such as fuel for energy (RDF) and aggregate for reuse within the construction industry. Using an electro magnet, small items of metal such as nails, screws are also recovered. The resultant use of this new ADS plant provides L&S and its clients with a 100% recovery score and a 100% total diversion from landfill for this very difficult waste stream.
In May 2012 HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) controversially issued confirmation guidance stating that Trommel Fines, which areas of the waste industry waste had previously interpreted to be classed as inert material and therefore charged at the lower landfill tax rate of 2.50 per tonne, would instead attract the correct LFT levy i.e. as active material and charged at the standard rate of 64 per tonne. This rate increased again to 72 per tonne on 1 April 2013.
L&S Waste managing director Mick Balch, said: In deploying the new ADS plant, committing the site, staff and associated machinery to deal with this problematic material L&S is making a significant long term investment, however one that is absolutely necessary to ensure that we remain at the forefront of our industry whilst importantly providing our clients with the highest possible waste recovery rates, in a fully compliant manner.
Co-op chooses to refurbish balers
Specialist recycling equipment company Middleton Engineering has refurbished existing baling plant and conveyors used by the Co-op at five food distribution centres to as new condition.
Middletons has been supplying baling equipment for plastic and card to the Groups distribution centres, since 1997, with 15 balers spread over 10 sites. So far, the team has refurbished eight of these installing them into The Co-operatives new sites at Andover, Avonmouth, Newhouse, Birtley and now Castlewood in Derbyshire.
Chas Shepperson, the Co-operative Foods national material handling equipment manager and warehouse equipment fleet manager, said: Using Middleton Engineerings refurbished balers to bale the back-hauled outer transit packaging, cardboard and plastic sheet helps us to achieve our strict recycling volumes. Not only are we reducing the volume of waste to landfill, but were creating a new revenue stream – and the balers will quickly pay for themselves.
Envirobin assists glass recycling
Wiltshire-based recycling bin manufacturer Leafield Environmental has developed a multi-stacking liner system which is designed to make it easier to collect glass from its Envirobin Maxi collection unit when full.
The liner system incorporates up to three interlocking liners each with handles. When the top liner is full it can be moved to the bottom with relative ease and a new empty liner is brought into action. Glass collection frequency is not disrupted but manual handling of the empty bottles is made much easier thanks to the new liner system, according to the company.
The firm said: It is reported that every tonne of glass recycled saves 322 kWh of energy, 246kg of CO2 and the need to quarry 1.2 tonnes of virgin raw materials. Anything that improves the 30% of glass that is currently recycled every year in the UK is therefore to be encouraged from the economic as well as the environmental standpoints.
Recycling firm purchases Doosan wheeled loader
Gloucestershire-based recycling business Valley Trading Ltd has purchased the first new generation Doosan DL200-3 Stage IIIB compliant wheel loader in the UK from Kellands (Plant Sales) Ltd, based at Bridgwater in Somerset.
Based on the Babdown Industrial Estate near Tetbury, the Valley Trading materials storage and waste recycling business is run by husband and wife Reino and Barbara Kahkonen. As well as processing around 50,000 tonne of material a year on the site, Valley Trading also supplies aggregates and hires out skips, tippers and grab lorries.
Mr Kahkonen said: We have had good operational experience with our existing Doosan machines and, combined with the excellent package and support from Kellands, this greatly influenced our decision to purchase the new 2.0 m3 capacity DL200-3 wheel loader.
This machine is busy working most of the time in our covered waste transfer station, and joins a 2.5 m3 Doosan DL250 wheel loader thats been operating at our site for over 5 years now. At the point that the new DL200-3 model arrived, the slightly larger DL250 wheel loader had worked an impressive 7340 hours without any major problems.
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