And while the company is using recycled paper from the USA at present, if its “ConCover All Purpose” product takes off, it could develop a paper reprocessing plant in the UK.
After successful use in the States, New Waste Concepts' Exeter-based subsidiary has already begun working with a handful of UK landfill sites in using the ConCover product, which is made from a mixture of recovered paper, plastic and water.
The product is mixed in special vehicles into a kind of slurry, which can be sprayed onto landfills before it hardens. The company says its product requires about 20 minutes of mixing time, and once in place sets in about two hours.
Recovered paper used in the product comes from the USA at the moment, but once contracts are signed and New Waste Concepts is aware of how much paper it will require, it will be signing a deal with a UK based reprocessor, it said.
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Gary Thomson, sales manager at New Waste Concepts, told letsrecycle.com that he expected to put pen to paper with landfill operators from this summer. He said initially, the company would be using around 180 tonnes of recovered paper a year.
But Mr Thomson added: “If business increases and a lot more contracts are signed, the building of our own plant is a possibility. This could be done alone, or alongside a paper reprocessor.”
Already the company has provided cover for sites in Manchester and Dunbar, with several more contracts currently being discussed.
New Waste Concepts actually began the development of its landfill cover product in the UK 12 years ago, but the process at the time was deemed too expensive to adopt. Since then, the technology has taken off in the USA, the company said.
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