Dig A Screener

Dig A Screener is pleased to announce that it will be participating in next month’s Association for Organics Recycling Annual Conference and Awards which takes place at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Birmingham on 11 February 2010.

With a theme of “Focusing On The Changes In Biowaste”, the event will debate key issues including
carbonmetrics, impact of anaerobic digestion, food waste collections, and legislative issues.   It has also attracted some high profile speakers including:
•    Soil Scientist, Tony Kendle, from the Eden Project;
•    Dr Richard Swannell from WRAP;
•    plus representatives from Viridor, Eunomia, European Compost Network, London Remade Solutions and many more.

To be a part of this event or to see us there, please visit www.organics-recycling.org.uk to register.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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.

Please call us on Tel: 01606 835544 for further details.

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.”

Eight days hire of A Dig A Screener REMU L75 excavator-mounted screening bucket recently provided invasive weed management specialist, Herpetosure Invasive Solutions, with a flexible and cost-effective alternative to a second manned conveyor/screener, when eradicating Japanese Knotweed at a site in Portsmouth.

Japanese Knotweed is recognised by the Environment Agency as one of the UK’s most invasive plant species, with aggressive growth of up to 10cm a day causing extensive damage to buildings, foundations and roads. It spreads through the movement of rhizomes, the shoots that come from the root system.

The weed is regulated by several pieces of legislation, which put a duty of care on the landowner with infestations to be proactive in its control and eradication. This can be achieved in a number of ways, including chemical treatment and excavation, depending on the site and the timescales available.

At the site in Portsmouth over 1,000 tonnes of soil was first screened through the Dig A Screener REMU bucket and then carried via conveyor belt to a manned picking station. The use of the screener bucket dispensed with the need for an extra manned conveyor/screener.

The whole operation is designed to reduce the quantity of soil contaminated with Japanese Knotweed being sent to landfill, with cleaned material placed in a known location on site and monitored by Herpetosure for 12 months.

“The Dig A Screener REMU bucket provides us with a cost-effective and flexible solution when screening spoil,” commented Simon York of Herpetosure Invasive Solutions. “It requires a much smaller footprint than a traditional screener, makes greater use of the excavator on site and can easily be moved from one location to another on the back of a trailer. What’s more it’s ideal for smaller projects and, in some instances, can even do away with the need for a conveyor and manned screening station.”

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.

We have been talking for a long time about the various applications in which the REMU range of screening buckets can be used. But check out this video to see what versatility really means: