Announced on Thursday by the Halifax-based charity, the new site on Jennens Road in Birmingham, will be used to deliver a 500,000 service for local small and medium-sized businesses.
” Local firms can make significant savings, often just from small changes. “
– Ron Twyford, Urban Mines
The service will consist of five-day audits for firms interested in cutting their waste and will help companies to save money by suggesting good environmental practises.
Running over three years, the audits will be funded by local regional development agency, Advantage West Midlands. Businesses will also have to pay about 100 a day to take part.
Ron Twyford, West Midlands' project manager for Urban Mines, said: “Local firms can make significant savings, often just from small changes. In England each year over 280 million tonnes of material is treated as waste – which is wasted money and not helping the environment.”
Recycling
Urban Mines said that the waste diverted from landfill would also help to develop the West Midlands recycling sector.
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Peter Scholes, managing director for Urban Mines, told letsrecycle.com yesterday: “We will match up companies with local recyclers so that demand for recycling increases.”
Mr Scholes, who runs offices in Preston and Yorkshire, was confident that the project would be a success. He said: “We've done this type of work before in the region and we also run an identical scheme in Yorkshire. We hope to expand during the three years.”
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