More than £1.2m has been invested in the three-acre site, which has the capacity to process 50,000 tonnes of waste per year, including £350,000 on plant, such as a new excavator, pre-picking belts and specialist screens for the sorting of materials.
director Jamie Higgins, and fellow staff.
The operations, including a weighbridge, will be on part of a wharf directly opposite the home stadium of Southampton FC.
An initial 12 jobs will be created with the facility in Belvidere Road, thought to be the first of its kind close to the centre of Southampton.
Licensed by the Environment Agency, the facility has been designed to recycle up to 85% of materials, including skip waste such as rubble, wood, plastic and metal. Also going into the site will be material collected in local rounds by TJ from residential and business properties.
It is the third facility to be opened recently by Fareham-based TJ, which has a fleet of 122 mixed-use trucks and employs a total of 182 staff across all of its sites.
Location
John Gosling, TJ’s managing director, said: “The location is ideal for trades to bring in their work-related waste for recycling before they stock up for their next jobs from nearby builders’ merchants.
“An initial 12 jobs will be created with the facility, which has seen a £1.2m investment by us in a land lease and associated plant to yield the highest levels of recycling possible.
“Our aim is always to ensure the least amount of material from our customers ends up in landfill, with up to 85% recycled by us and distributed as part of the closed recycling loop.
“The site, permitted by the Environment Agency, is the only one of its kind in inner-city Southampton, westwards from the River Itchen.”
In 2014 TJ leased a site at Blashford sand and gravel quarry, just north of Ringwood in the Avon Valley, towards Bournemouth. Manned by three staff, the facility carries out the recycling of soils and hardcore, such as concrete, bricks and asphalt, with new plant machinery for separation processing.
The firm’s second, operated by a team of 15 people, is at Tipner, Portsmouth, close to the M275. Operations at the materials recovery facility are also geared to high volume commercial trade use.
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