Results from the annual Association for Organics Recycling survey has shown a nine per cent increase in recycled organics.
The 2007/08 report, put together by AFOR and the Waste & Resources Action Programme, showed 4.5 million tonnes of source segregated waste was composted in the UK with half of this sold on and industry reporting turnover of more than £165m in the year to April 2008.
The survey went on to predict that the future of the organics recycling industry is to increase in future as UK capacity is expected to expand to 6.3 million tonnes over the next five years.
WRAP director of retail and organics Dr Richard Swannell said: “The composting industry has experienced phenomenal growth and this will continue as food waste collections take off.
“Our research shows that compost producers are well placed to meet the growing demand for food waste processing. The drive to produce quality outputs, shown in the survey, will be key to the development of the industry in future.”
REMU has unveiled its biggest-ever screening and recycling bucket: the 6.4 m3 capacity WL600.
Weighing in at 5.2 tonnes, the new unit is suitable for wheel loaders in the 16 to 24 tonne class and excavators in the 38 to 48 tonne class and is expected to prove popular in a variety of screening and composting applications.
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It may be six months away but we have already shown our commitment to customers North of the border by signing up for the ScotPlant 2010 exhibition.
The exhibition, Scotland’s premier plant show, is scheduled to take place at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh of 26 & 27 March, and it will provide Scottish customers with a great opportunity to catch up with the latest developments in the Dig A Crusher and Dig A Screener product lines.
The need to find a more compact and flexible way of screening inert waste has led a major transfer station and recycling facility in the North West of England to invest in a Dig A Screener REMU WL170 excavated-mounted screening bucket.
Based on a six-acre site in Wigan, with an adjoining two-acre hazardous waste transfer station, Blakeley’s Waste Management has witnessed substantial year on year growth over the past decade.
Established in 1982 as a single skip loader company, today it offers a complete range of waste collection services for industrial, commercial and domestic users with a fleet of 30 vehicles.
The company’s site is capable of handling in excess of 500 tonnes of waste a day, of which approximately 65 per cent is recycled. With inert waste accounting for a diminishing proportion of all materials handled, the company was keen to find a space saving and more manageable alternative to its three-way split screener.
“As the trade side of our business has grown, we’ve invested heavily in the effective use of our site,” commented Blakeley’s managing director, Stephen Blakeley.
“In the past two years we’ve extended our materials recycling facility by 12,000 sq.ft, completely modernised our transport office and weighing facilities and just completed the concrete hard standing of the entire six-acre area.
“And while C&D waste still accounts for a third of all materials we handle, our Powerscreen Chieftain screener was taking up too much space to process and grade it.”
Attached to a New Holland 25 tonne excavator, a Dig A Screener REMU WL170 has provided the ideal solution. The WL Series bucket is the perfect machine to screen and mix awkward, wet or sticky materials.
The unique narrow bucket design with its straight sides and round blades reduce the risk of clogging to an absolute minimum. The blade design also means oversize objects are repelled rather than crushed, which prevents excess wear, while maximising material screening.
“The Dig A Screener does the same job as before, but with a significantly smaller footprint” commented Stephen. “At the same time it gives us the flexibility to respond to constantly changing flows of inert waste material.”
