According to Sulo, its banks have become well established as collection points for paper, plastics and cans.
” Theft from textile banks is becoming an increasing problem “
– Martin Wilcox, JMP Wilcox
Now textile recycler JMP Wilcox and Co Ltd of Bilston has taken to using the banks for textiles, which it claims has helped to stop people stealing clothes.
JMP Wilcox has been recycling textiles for more than 100 years and supplies recycling banks to bring sites across the Midlands, but it has had problems with its banks in recent years.
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Managing director, Martin Wilcox, said: “The problem was primarily with the hinged receiver chutes and the methods of emptying.”
“Its aperture was large enough to allow the bank's contents to be pilfered. Theft from textile banks is becoming an increasing problem, with stolen clothing being sold on, particularly through car boot sales. There have even been instances of children climbing into the banks through the aperture to remove items,”
The company designed its own 2,500 litre bank, but it wanted larger banks to collect textiles from busier supermarket sites. Sulo has now provided them with theft proof banks up to 4,000 litres.
The containers are available in a range of sizes, from 1,500 to 4,000 litres. They are also available with up to three chambers in order to separate different materials.
JMP Wilcox has invested heavily in Sulo's container technology, and has recently installed more than 1.5 million worth of computerised sorting equipment at its plant in Bilston in order to deal with the additional material collected at the larger banks.
The machinery is capable of handling more than 80 different grades of material and is soon expected to be processing more than 450 tonnes of textiles each week.
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