The contract, worth up to £6 million will run until April 2018, and will see Countrystyle handle up to 30,000 tonnes of material per year from the new machine including ragger rope, small and heavy rejects, fine rejects, plastics and sand.
Countrystyle is also providing waste management services for all non-processed waste streams at the Snodland site.
Countrystyle and Smurfit Kappa worked together closely in the lead up to this contract award on the design of specialist containers to optimise logistics and fit within the designated waste collection area into which the various waste streams arising from the mill are directed.
Each waste stream is collected separately by Countrystyle’s fleet and transported to treatment and disposal sites including Countrystyle’s own recycling facility in Ridham, Kent.
Townsend Hook
Smurfit Kappa has overseen a wide-scale refit of its Townsend Hook mill, which reopened in early 2015.
Malcolm Wright, purchasing manager at Smurfit Kappa, said: “We are pleased to be working with Countrystyle as we know that they are specialists in their field, using experience and innovation to tackle difficult waste streams such as ragger rope. We are confident that they will deliver our goal of 100% diversion from landfill, bringing with it both environmental and financial benefits for Smurfit Kappa.”
Countrystyle’s managing director, Chris Howard, said: “This contract cements our relationship with Smurfit Kappa and justifies our significant investment in aiding the recovered paper sector in the recycling and reuse of by-products from its processes.
“This win further demonstrates Countrystyle’s continued ability to provide innovative, professional and cost-effective solutions across the spectrum of collection and treatment services.”
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