Steel business’ focus on recycling worth £250,000 in 10 months
Sheffield Forgemasters saves money in landfill tax and earns rebates. An internationally renowned steel business has made a combined savings and income total of £250,000 in just ten months after starting work with waste management company Biffa.
Sheffield Forgemasters International Limited (SFIL) has increased its recycling rate to 90 per cent, meaning on a monthly basis it is now diverting an average of 815 tonnes of waste from landfill and saving tens of thousands of pounds in taxes.
For the first time the business is also making a profit from selling- on waste products for re-use. The sale of scale from furnaces, paper, cardboard and plastic has earned SFIL £50,000 in rebates since April. The changes are a result of introducing Biffa’s Integrated Waste Management (IWM) system on site. In addition, the fixed cost of Biffa’s service is also almost half that of SFIL’s previous supplier.
SFIL Group Environment Manager Victoria Hinchcliffe said: “Diverting waste from landfill is very important to us as part of our efforts to reduce our impact on the environment as much as possible. We have made significant improvements since starting work with Biffa last year.
“The fact that Biffa has identified ways for us to get value from our waste in terms of rebate is an added bonus. We are really pleased with the results we have achieved in a relatively short space of time.”
She added: “The icing on the cake for us is that it is an improved service, but the fixed weekly costs are actually 46 per cent lower than our previous supplier.”
SFIL’s five-year contract with Biffa’s IWM division began in April 2010 and three full-time Biffa staff are now permanently based at the 64-acre site, including a qualified chemist who tests potentially hazardous waste materials on-site to ensure they are disposed of properly.
Biffa’s Head of IWM, Ed Pigg, said: “Forgemasters can be very proud of its achievements to date. Heavy industry is not something people might associate with recycling but this goes to show what you can achieve. Sheffield Forgemasters is setting an example to all industries.
“In less than a year of working together we have not only reduced costs to the business but introduced a new source of revenue. And that is our aim across all industries – to ensure waste is not a cost, but an asset. “With landfill taxes due to rise to £72 per tonne by April 2013 finding alternatives is not just important in the environmental sense, but financially as well.
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