Newport Wastesavers has achieved a seven-fold increase in its collection of consumer waste cans, from 30 tonnes in 1988 to 210 tonnes last year.
It has been made an ‘exemplar project’ by the Welsh Local Government Association, and hopes to boots the recycling rate for cans in its area from 12 per cent to 50 per cent by 2006.
Corus is supporting the venture through packaging waste recovery note funding, worth some 10,000. This will help to support its move to a larger site and improve the efficiency of its sorting and processing.
Mike Croxford, general manager at Newport Wastesavers, said: “The provision of funding from CSPR has enabled Wastesavers Recycling to greatly increase the efficiency and tonnage of steel cans recycled at our depot in Newport.
Meanwhile, Gwynedd-based Allport Metal Recycling is to benefit from a new 12,000 baler provided by Corus, which will help to improve its steel can sorting and processing.
Allport is the only independent can collector in north Wales, which has long suffered from a lacking of metal recycling infrastructure. It operates 120 banks and recovers 75 tonnes of metal a year.
“Receiving this sponsorship from CSPR has meant that we are able to process the material much faster, thus offering a much more efficient service to the community,” explained the firm's owner, Paul Allport.
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