The switch to an excavator-mounted screening bucket attachment from Dig A Screener has provided in-vessel composting specialist, TEG, with a cost-effective answer to the screening of animal by-products at its Hutton site in Lancashire.
As one of the few approved technologies capable of treating animal by-product (ABP) waste, the TEG Silo Cage in-vessel composting system can accept a variety of green and kitchen food waste as well as waste from food, beverage and catering companies, abattoirs and animal processers.
To ensure ABP approval, animal by-product waste needs to be reduced to a specified particle size before being mixed with green waste and feed into silos for composting.
“We handle approximately 100 tonnes of food waste a week here at Hutton, of which a Dig A Screener REMU 600SL deals with the 80 per cent that contains animal waste by-products,” commented TEG engineering and development/maintenance manager Craig Wright. “This includes domestic together with commercial waste from food processers including pizza and baked bean manufacturers.”
“We previously used another type of screener bucket in an attempt to find a viable economic alternative to either a twin-shaft shredder or trommel screen, but that was only partially successful.”
“The Dig A Screener REMU bucket has provided us with a flexible and relatively low-cost screening solution, mounted as and when required, to our JCB Loadall telehandler. It is more than capable of handling the diverse variety of high moisture content materials we receive.”
The Dig A Screener REMU SL series is suitable for both wheel loaders and backhoes between 2 and 24 tonnes and excavators from 2 and 30 tonnes. With a choice of screening sizes capable of screening down to 15mm and the ability to handle a variety of materials, they are ideal for all weather/all year wet screening applications.
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