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 Printers' Waste Boosts Recycling Effort
Monday 5th April 2004
Environment benefits from investment in new machinery...
An £85,000 investment in a new plastics shredding machine is already reaping major rewards for Blandford-based print waste collection and recycling specialists J&G Environmental.
The new machine has enabled the company to increase its HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) recycling to over 6 tonnes a week, equivalent to some 6,000 containers, all collected from printing companies throughout the UK.
For the first time J&G can also recycle 'dirty' containers contaminated with varnish residue that previously went to designated landfill sites.
The machine also shreds unwanted wooden pallets, a service that is already proving popular with the company's customers.
J&G joint managing director Steve Armstrong said: "As we can now recycle virtually every container we collect the environment benefits from both a reduction in the UK's use of virgin HDPE plastics and the number of contaminated containers going to landfill.
"The new shredder has already proved so successful we are considering installing a second machine".
Working at full capacity the top of the range Weima machine is capable of shredding about 12,000 containers and 1,000 wooden pallets a week. The plastic granules produced are sent for reprocessing into a wide range of products, mainly drainage pipes. The wood chippings are used in the manufacture of chipboard.
In addition to plastic containers and wooden pallets, J&G dispose of around three million litres of printers' toxic liquid waste weekly and collect over 6000 tonnes of aluminium litho plates, as well as tens of thousands of used fluorescent lamp tubes every year.
The company currently recycle or reuse nearly three-quarters of the waste they collect and is aiming to achieve 85 per cent in the near future.
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For further information please contact:
Steve Armstrong at J&G Environmental. Telephone: 01258 453445.
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