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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.”

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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.

We hope to see you there.

The use of Dig A Crusher and Dig A Screener excavator-mounted crushing and screening buckets is helping Surrey-based stabilised material reinstatement specialists, SMR, to cost-effectively grow its UK network of recycling centres for waste from utility street works.

SMR is pioneering the UK market for premixed reinstatement materials with its ‘Premixd’ solution. This can recover up to 100 per cent of road and pavement spoil and transform it into a high quality product that can outperform traditional materials such as Type GSB aggregates.

Through its sister company, Sustainable Aggregates and a growing number of third party dealers, SMR is establishing a nationwide network of recycling centres. These allow utility companies to avoid landfill charges by tipping their waste for recycling while at the same time collecting SMR Premixd material to reinstate works.

Good spoil management is key to the recycling process with waste needing to be screened and oversized material crushed. This is achieved through the use of Dig A Crusher and Dig A Screener excavator-mounted crushing and screening buckets at a significantly lower capital outlay compared to trommel screens, thereby helping to make local recycling centres more commercially viable. They can also produce screened and crushed material at a much lower cost per tonne.

Being excavator-mounted, the bucket screeners and crushers can easily work in a fraction of the footprint taken by trommel screens and require just one man to operate, which can be any excavator driver.

‘We have been very pleased with the performance of both the Dig A Screeners and Dig A Crushers in terms of their flexibility, speed of processing and reliability,” said SMR managing director, Clive Holloway.

“In any operation like ours, especially for smaller or developing sites, capital outlay is an important consideration, especially as we substantially increase our network of local recycling centres for utility firms and their contractors.”

If you’d like to see this equipment in action, please check out this new video (below):

Dig A Crusher managing director Sean Heron is a pretty modest guy and he has largely chosen to sweep under the carpet his magnificent achievement of cycling from the top to the bottom of his native Ireland.

However, the good people at SED 2010 have rightly chosen to ignore Heron’s modesty, and have plastered his achievements across their newly uploaded website. And since Sean is currently driving and can do nothing about it, we thought we’d share the link with you too.

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As regular readers will know, Dig A Screener managing director has just spent the past seven days cycling from the Northernmost to the Southernmost tip of his native Ireland to raise money for the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity. Saddle sore and weary, Sean has just sent us this message:

I finished the challenge on Friday afternoon when we reached the most southerly point of Ireland after seven tough, enjoyable and fascinating days.
I learned that what Marie Curie do is to care for patients at home when they are dying. Their family want to care for them, but the reality is when they are left on their own it is so exhausting to do this. Then the first thing to go is love. Marie Curie nurses take care of the patents and so allow the family to take care of their loved ones in their final days.
We had some amazing moments during the trip. The best one was the weather. Sunshine and a tail wind all the way. You couldn’t make it up!! Then there was the individuals including Margaret a 55-year old nurse from Waterford but now in Aberdeen who said she hadn’t been on a bike for two months because she didn’t want to injure herself before the trip!!
I also leaned that someone has made the hills in Ireland a lot steeper over the last 20 years because they were a lot harder to get over, especially the hills between Buncrana and Derry. We had early starts with wake up calls at 6.30 and were on the road for 8am. The days were longest on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday when we didn’t finish before 5pm.
But the crack was great. We went as individuals and came away as a group. 41 did it and great friendships were made along the roads. The banter with the locals was brilliant as we were shouting support to all the farmers, walkers and anyone else who gave us a sideways glance along the way!! “Come on the Banner” will ring in my head for a long time as we passed through Clare. I wouldn’t normally put the words “beautiful” and “Strabane” in the same sentence but I was amazed at the views and scenery into the town as we cycled along the wee roads from the Sperrins above.
Overall I am glad to have done it. Sometimes in life you have to give a lot to get a little back. I have just experienced that last week.

Congratulations Sean and to all your fellow riders; what a spectacular achievement.