Transfer

All cardboard and paper collected is baled and sent to paper mills for reprocessing back into fibre based products.

This material will be processed through our mechanical plant and category A & B wood is dispatched to various timber mills. The clean product is chipped and re-used to produce chipboard. Category B material is chipped and used in various industrial processes (eg. Compressed bricketts).

Metals such as iron are separated and sent to local metal recycling facilities where 100% is recycled.  Metals are fragmentised or smelted and once melted sold to various sources to be manufactured into new metal products.  

Green waste is taken to a local sourced composting facility where 100% is recycled.  The green waste is mulched and composted before being used as a fertiliser on agricultural land.

All hard core / concrete waste including ceramics is 100% recycled.  Hard core is crushed and screened prior to being reused as a secondary aggregate.

Plasterboard is bulked and taken to a local plasterboard recycling centre where 100% is recycled. The gypsum is crushed and ground down and then mixed with new gypsum to make new plasterboard.

All soils are 100% recycled.  After screening, soils are sent for engineering material and also used as recycled topsoil.

Mixed construction materials pass through our trommel and sorting facilities to separate out into the constituent materials which are reused and recycled as detailed above.

All general waste is firstly machine sorted and then processed through a manual picking line to ensure that the maximum amount of recyclable material is separated. Residual waste from all sites is then loaded and sent to generate energy as refuse derived fuel (RDF).