The company, formerly known as Preston Recycling, began recycling cathode ray tubes last year. This was the latest waste management and recycling service offered by the company, which is also a scrap metal handler and end of life vehicle recycler.
” This company has grown a great deal and with the recent movement into WEEE we expect to continue this growth “
– Charlie Jackson, Recycling.co.uk
But now the company wants to find uses for the materials such as plastic that are collected through its end of life vehicle and waste electrical and electronic equipment reprocessing facilities.
Charlie Jackson, managing director of Recycling.co.uk, told letsrecycle.com: “This company has grown a great deal and with the recent movement into WEEE we expect to continue this growth.
“But we don't want to stop there, we want to complete the loop and we want to be users of recycled material users of our own products. The recycling industry is not just about getting hold of the materials, it is using them as well – we want to be a manufacturer as well as a reprocessor,” he added.
Recycling.co.uk has already begun looking into possible areas of manufacturing, with announcements expected in the near future.
The company officially launched its WEEE recycling plant – under the trade name of computer-recycling.co.uk. The company plans to take CRTs through one line and general WEEE through a second.
Its approach to computer recycling is to ensure that an end-of-life computer is in fact “dead” before it is put through the machine. Testing points at the beginning of the process are used to test whether or not a computer or television can actually be reused rather than recycled.
The company currently uses a hot-wire process to separate the panel and funnel glass on the cathode ray tubes.
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