COMPANY PROFILE
Waste oil to base oil - providing the sustainable Slicker solution
Mark Olpin, Executive Chairman of Slicker Recycling Limited
For several years the business of waste management and sustainability have gone hand-in-hand, especially as a growing number of organisations focus on the wider green agenda.
Here at Slicker Recycling, we are redefining the sustainability journey by helping major producers of hazardous waste to improve their carbon performance and encouraging them to look through an environmental lens, as opposed to a purely financial one.
Slicker Recycling is one of the largest B2B collectors and recyclers of waste oil in the UK. We operate in a highly regulated industry and our objectives are driven entirely by the concept of sustainability where we aim to successfully find only the best environmental waste treatment options.
We treat and regenerate around 75 million litres of used lubricating oil each year. That’s our core business, but our other sustainability-focused services include collecting workshop waste, managing specialist marine pollution projects, and delivering large-scale recycling initiatives for heavy industries.
Our progress and reputation as a one stop shop for dealing with hazardous waste has been widely recognised, but there are specific innovations and investments we have delivered which have bolstered our standing as a global hazardous waste specialist which puts sustainability front and centre.
42 LUBE MAGAZINE NO.174 APRIL 2023 A Danish re-refining reality
One stand-out investment we made in 2021 was in our Danish-based re-refinery which we own and operate in partnership with highly respected German firm, AVISTA Oil AG, together creating the trading subsidiary AVISTA Green.
With growing demand in the UK for more sustainable waste solutions, and as part of the European Waste Hierarchy model, the £70 million Kalundborg facility was three years in the planning and is in place to turn used lubricants into a valuable, reusable resource which supports legislative and environmental policies.
A superb example of a commercially successful and truly sustainable circular economy solution, the re-refinery steps entirely away from the environmentally damaging process of burning used lubricating oils. Instead, it turns it into a recycled material for reuse as a lubricant, or to help form new products.
As the UK’s only waste recycling company to invest in this technology at this scale, it’s changed our path of how used lubricating oils are processed and redistributed. One-third of the 139,000 tonnes of oil processed every year is now returned to the UK economy.
It is important to say that prior to the re-refinery opening, the used oil we collected was instead going into the production of Processed Fuel Oil, sold into the
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