BYGONE TIMES – BY TIMOTHY BYRNE
Blast from the past: a look back on waste management between the 1960s-1990s
cubic yard container loaded with waste from Clarks shoe factory in Plymouth. The vehicle was operated by ‘The Heavy Transport Company Ltd’ of Plymouth which was a subsidiary of the English China Clays (ECC Group). A late 1960's AEC Marshall Major 6x4 22-tonne chassis fi tted with a Powell Duff ryn Dempster Dinosaur roll-on-off equipment. The vehicle was operated by Humberside Waste Disposal Ltd and is shown carrying a 40 cubic yard open top roll-on-off container.
1970s 1960s Bedford TK 4x2 7.5-tonne chassis
AS 2018 comes to an end, the waste management sector has seen many a change especially with the ever-present Brexit looming, which was coupled with the news China – the world’s largest waste market – will no longer accept the UK’s 55% of post-consumer paper waste (55%) and plastics (25%). However, it is not all doom and gloom – in fact, it is far from it. The UK and Irish waste management and recycling markets have always been able to meet the demands through innovation, all the while pushing to new limits. So to celebrate the UK and Ireland’s ‘never say die’ attitude, after an admittedly torrid 2018 for the waste industry, Skip Hire & Waste Magazine’s regular contributor Timothy Byrne has provided a ‘blast from the past’ list of Britain’s waste management industry from 1960 all the way to the 1990s.
1960s
Ah the Swinging Sixties. England became World Cup winners, the Americans beat the Soviets to the moon, and the decade saw a cultural revolution on the streets of Britain. However, in order to keep those streets clean, there was considerable developments in the
types of waste handling equipment used for the collection and transport of industrial wastes. More voluminous types of packaging materials were being introduced such as plastic, which added to the wide range of dry wastes industry produced. A more varied range of container capacities were introduced to manage the transport of this waste. Dumpster collection systems and roll-on- off collection systems were introduced. Front loading mobile compaction vehicles were introduced to help reduce the bulk volumes of industrial waste which needed to be transported. This helped to increase payloads and help improve collection effi ciency. A 1960’s Bedford TK 4x2 7.5 tonne chassis fitted with a Powell Duffryn Dempster Dumpster 5S container lifting system. The vehicle is carrying a 12
In the seventies, rear loading type industrial waste collection vehicles were introduced for the emptying of skip containers used by the industry. This gave the UK waste collection contractors more variety in the types of collection vehicles they could use, which included methods such as skip loader and roll-on-off s, and front-end loader or industrial rear end loader for servicing the industry.
A 1970s AEC Marshall Major 6x4 22-tonne chassis fi tted with a Powell Duff ryn Dempster Dumpmaster front end loader
body. The vehicle was operated by the former Argyle County
Council and is shown emptying an eight cubic yard container.
The vehicle was used to empty containers along the coastal
containing commercial waste at caravan sites.
roads of the island containing litter as well as containers
LATE 1960s AEC Marshall Major 6x4 22-tonne chassis
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1970s AEC Marshall Major 6x4 22-tonne chassis
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