COMPANY PROFILE BY SANDRA DICK
Will Nicholls has swapped a potential law career to build up the thriving UK-wide ECOGEN Recycling empire.
handled by a new Persona LP 65 VH2 plastic and cardboard baler which was installed in March. It’s taken capacity from 8 tonnes an hour to 22 tonnes.
“Commodity has quite a value once you sell it on, so we share that with the people we take the waste from,” says Will.
Such as one Cornwall-based fi sh company, which was being charged around £5,000 a month to get rid of the polystyrene fi sh boxes.
“It turned out fi sh companies had skips out the back fi lled up with poly boxes that were being exchanged every couple of days. The material doesn’t weigh much, but for landfi ll it was costing them £150 each time the bin was changed.
“There could be three bins changed every 2 days – that’s £450 every couple of days.”
Ecogen’s EPS compactor/melting machines reduce the poly material by a ratio of 50:1. The compacted material can then be sold on for recycling into a variety of items, from coat hangers to home insulation.
Income from the sale is fed back to the fi sh company, turning what was a cost, into income.
At the heart of the business is plastic and cardboard processing,
Meanwhile, work is now underway to create a new £90,000 document shredder plant capable of tackling up to 35 tonnes of material per day, including confidential documents. Paper tends to make its way onwards to Kent and Welsh tissue mills.
The vision is coming together. Will, still just 34 years old and with a passion for his Harley Davidson and Kawasaki ZZR1400 – “The most powerful production motor cycle,” he said proudly - is joined in the business by wife Megan, who handles the business accounts, commercial director James Lewis who joined in 2013, and Operations Manager Toby Mottram.
As for the law degree, he insists it still comes in handy.
“When I’m dealing with contracts and legal issues, looking at environmental policies and complex leases on premises, it’s still useful,” he explained.
“This wasn’t what I set out to do, but it’s just as challenging and besides - I enjoy it.”
ECOGEN RECYCLING, New Farm Road, Alresford, Winchester, Hampshire
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