Manufactured at its plant in Worcestershire, Taylor's put its new recycling container on show at the CIWM conference in Torbay. With a large proportion of the government's 140 million recycling fund going to kerbside recycling projects, Taylor's is already seeing demand for the boxes.
 Taylor's new kerbside recycling containers |
“We had a lot of interest in Torbay,” Marketing Manager Aletia Taylor told letsrecycle.com, “and a lot of the money from DEFRA is going into kerbside collection projects, so we're expecting some interest from that.”
The new containers are manufactured by plastic injection moulding to ISO Quality Standard 9001 and ISO Environmental Standard 14001. “The Taylor boxes are slightly bigger than our present ones, are well made and competitively priced,” said Heidi Seary, Waste Management Officer at Harborough District Council, one of the first local authorities to try the new boxes.
Recycled Content
Until its demise earlier this year, Plysu had led the way in using household-sourced plastic for their boxes. As much as a third of the plastic that went into the boxes was taken from the household waste stream – something that had made the boxes particularly popular for local authorities. Without the same experience that Plysu benefited from however, it should be a while until Taylor's are able to reach similar levels of recycled content in their boxes.
“The majority of our boxes are from virgin plastic because of the testing procedures,” Ms Taylor said. “There has to be a balance between something that is recycled and something that will last.”
There are kerbside boxes available from other companies, such as Linpac, which have a high or 100% recycled content. However, Taylor is also looking at the recycled content market and does offer some boxes made with limited proportions of recycled plastics, although only in certain colours and subject to discussions with individual customers.
According to Ms Taylor, their plan is to gradually introduce a higher proportion of recycled plastic in their boxes as their experience grows and they can guarantee the same level of quality for their product.
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