RECYCLING & WASTE HANDLING
Only an April Fool ignores landfill tax increase
From 1st April 2011 landfill tax increased by £8 per tonne which is encouraging soaring numbers of commercial
organisations to reduce the amount of waste they send to landfill by introducing new recycling procedures according to workplace equipment provider Slingsby.
This latest landfill tax hike means businesses will pay £56 for each tonne of waste they send to landfill and the tax is set to continue increasing by £8 per year until April 2014. Lee Wright, marketing director of Slingsby, explains: “Although most organisations have become more environmentally responsible over the last few years, April’s landfill tax increase means there’s more potential than ever to make major cost savings simply by recycling. In addition new recycling schemes that are introduced will now pay for themselves quicker than ever before.
“One of the easiest ways to avoid being financially penalised by the Government is to introduce ‘at source recycling’ programmes where all waste is sorted before it leaves the premises. In recent years we’ve seen a huge increase in the number of organisations across all industries using such schemes because they are straightforward to set-up and require minimal investment.” Finally Lee adds: “An ‘at source recycling’ programme is also a great way for commercial organisations to abide by the Landfill Directive (England and Wales) Regulations 2002 which state all non- hazardous waste should be treated before being sent to landfill. The other main requirement of these regulations is that a ‘Waste Transfer Note’ is filed for two years detailing where the waste came from and what it is. This shows landfill operators what they are dealing with and also provides a clear audit trail from when the waste is produced until it is disposed of.”
www.slingsby.com
Regrind Recycling supported by Barton Silos
Barton Fabrications, the largest UK silo supplier to the plastics industry, is supporting Nampak’s recycling initiative with the installation of its eleventh silo. The new silo has been installed at Nampak’s Foston site in Derbyshire and is used for recycled plastic regrind feedstock.
Nampak supplies ‘though the wall’ plastic milk containers to the major dairies and supermarkets. The installed silos support a major initiative to increase the amount of recycled polymer in its containers, and a combination of new and reconditioned vessels have been purchased for storing the plastic raw material. Previous installations of Barton
silos at Nampak include its Ballymena, Trafford Park, Severnside and London sites, where they are used to store both virgin and recycled plastic regrind materials. Commenting on how the silos support the company’s recycling initiative, Nick Smith Nampak’s Group Projects Manager said: ”We have made the investment of multiple silos on our sites to hold virgin and recycled plastic feedstock. This allows us to increase the percentage of recycled material that can be used during the blow moulding of our containers. Typically 10% of recycled material is used, but we have successfully carried out trials using up to 100% of the regrind feedstock. At present, the amount of recycled material we can use is only limited by the availability of the regrind feedstock. “All the silos we have specified are single skinned aluminium construction. Barton Fabrications was selected as they understand, and can deliver, the high standards of cleanliness and build quality that we require. The company is well organised, professional and has been extremely flexible managing the storage, installation and refurbishment of silos at our various sites.”
Silo refurbishments are a regular part of
Barton’s work, and can often offer a lower cost alternative to the Company’s new silos: in addition to facilitating the use of recycled raw materials, the silos themselves can be recycled. For more information on Silo refurbishment contact Barton Fabrications via its website
www.bartonfabs.co.uk or call +44 1275 845901.
New Buy-Back initiative
Global materials handling specialist,
LINPAC Allibert has launched a major initiative to encourage recycling and deliver cash benefits to its customers. It is expected to see thousands of unwanted and unused returnable transit packaging (RTP) containers turned into cash and then recycled and returned to the market.
There are more than 200 million units of
RTP in circulation in Europe. Designed to be durable and long-lasting, much of this stock has an average useful life of around seven years. However, as customers’ needs change and RTP becomes unsuitable for current use or damaged, it often sits around in storage providing little or no value, and in some cases even costs businesses storage. The Buy-Back scheme will operate in a similar way to a part exchange system. Customers will not only receive cash for a written down asset, giving it a value on their profit and loss account, but the scheme will also benefit the environment as this old stock will be recycled. Customers will be able to use the cash to upgrade their stock by buying new containers from LINPAC Allibert, or if the new containers are acquired on a lease, there is no upfront payment meaning a fresh new fleet of top quality RTP is immediately cash- positive.
Simon Knights, Commercial Director at
LINPAC Allibert, explains: “We are very excited by this opportunity to deliver real financial benefits to our clients. As a company which is constantly innovating and bringing new products to market, we believe that this service will enable customers to take advantage of the latest designs with minimal outlay. “The decision to introduce this new service has been very much driven by our customers. We have listened closely to what they need; a viable and beneficial solution to the issue of what to do with RTP once it is no longer serviceable. “As a company, we already use a large amount of recycled material. Such experience makes us ideally placed to put together the Buy-Back service and help to achieve considerable savings for our customers at a time when they need to make the most of their financial and supply chain resources. “With this offer we will be providing a solution that will really work well. It will turn a burden into an asset that can make a tangible difference to the balance sheet, clear valuable storage space and return resources into the system so that they can be re-used.”
www.linpac.com
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