Looking after the environment with closed loop recycling
Manufacturer of away from home paper products, Peter Grant Papers, is looking after the environment by providing Closed Loop Recycling to West Mercia Supplies. Using this process, Peter Grant Papers will collect all West Mercia Supplies’ waste paper when it delivers its away from home paper requirements. West Mercia Supplies is owned by four local authorities – Worcestershire County Council, Hereford County Council, Shropshire County Council and Telford & Wrekin Council – who came together to improve their buying power and secure better deals for their customers, which include schools, colleges and other institutions. It currently sources blue and green inter-fold towels, toilet tissue, centre-feed rolls and hygiene rolls from Peter Grant Papers.
Phil d’Arcy, national account manager at Peter Grant Papers, explained: “We have developed Closed Loop Recycling to both improve the service we offer to organisations like West Mercia Supplies
and to enhance our care for the environment. “As with many
organisations, despite its best efforts, West Mercia Supplies generates waste paper and we now, at the same time as delivering their away from home paper supplies, collect the waste paper and recycle it within our paper mill. Across our business we do all we can to minimise the road miles done by lorries that are not full. This contract helps us make sure all our lorries are full, and for West Mercia Supplies we are taking away the problem of disposing of their waste paper.” “We obviously do all we can to minimise waste paper,” explained Mike Philips, managing director of West Mercia Supplies. “But as with any organisation we cannot eliminate it completely; for example we have to print large product catalogues for our customers outlining all the products they can source from us and it is impossible to cost effectively print the precise number we need. Disposing of the
excess can be difficult and expensive. This arrangement with Peter Grant Papers removes the problem for us and gives us the certainty that the paper is being recycled.”
The paper is recycled at Peter Grant Papers’ Lancaster-based mill. Set alongside the river Lune, the mill produces recycled tissue primarily using post consumer waste. Each machine is computer programmed to exacting tolerances and the paper production process is continually monitored with a sophisticated in-line scanner that ensures constantly high quality in terms of tensile strength, weight, thickness and stretch. The mill provides Peter Grant Papers with the flexibility to meet the specific needs of individual customers, as it can produce parent reels of varying sizes, strengths and weight.
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Data destruction firm Printwaste Recycling expands in the Midlands
Printwaste Recycling & Shredding, one of the region’s largest specialists in the collection, destruction and recycling of confidential data, is expanding its services in the West Midlands and Worcestershire areas after securing significant new contracts.
The highly-accredited Cheltenham- based company is experiencing greater demand for its confidential data destruction services as more and more businesses recognise the need to dispose of sensitive documents and information responsibly and securely.
Printwaste, a family-run firm with nearly
30 years’ experience, operates secure shredding and confidential data destruction facilities, including a secure mobile shredding service, as well as a comprehensive recycling service that covers most waste streams. In the West Midlands, recent new customers include Sandwell Homes in West Bromwich and Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, to which it provides confidential data shredding and recycling services, including the recycling of plastics, cans, paper and cardboard from 120 schools.
Printwaste’s other new business gains in the Worcester and Evesham areas involve single-supplier complete waste management solutions for Southco, an automotive parts manufacturer and Amcor Flexibles, a leading packaging company. It is now growing its customer base in these areas and beyond with a range of flexible waste and recycling service options, including a dedicated mobile shredding facility at clients’ premises. The on-site secure data shredding vehicle is capable of destroying up to two tonnes of material an hour, which can be overseen by the client if required.
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“On-site shredding adds an extra level of security as there is no need to transport confidential material, other than in an unreadable state. Clients can even watch their confidential data being shredded, if they so wish, and receive a certificate of destruction as proof of compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998,” comments Printwaste Managing Director, Don Robins.
Printwaste is a dual-service company providing a wide range of recycling and secure shredding management solutions to more than 2,000 customers across all business sectors, from Government and Local Authorities, health, financial and legal organisations to commercial and industrial firms of all sizes.
Printwaste is accredited to ISO 9001:2008 incorporating BS EN 15713:2009, the bespoke standard for information destruction. It also holds the environmental standard – ISO 14001 – and is a principal member of the British Security Industry Association, as well as an Environment Agency registered waste carrier. Tel: 01242 588600
Email
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