Anglo Recycling used to send the skip in the photo below full of about three to four tonnes waste to landfill every Friday. Over 90% of it was dust and short fibres from the carpet recycling process. Fibre lengths below 30mm are too short to be made into carpet underlay at the company’s site in Lancashire, and recycling virgin carpet offcuts can mean 10-15% of fibres fall below the 30mm.
Anglo Recycling Director Simon Macauley explains: “Then, my colleague Martin Street sat down with Ross Freedman of Fresh Start who deals with the company’s skips and worked out if we kept the dust and short fibres separate – we’d still need the big skip – but every Friday it would go to the Hooton Bio Power facility and be turned into electricity.
“We just have a baby skip for other rubbish. But the clever people at Fresh Start then hand sort that rubbish and manage to recycle 75% of it!”
Simon says the company has now reduced its waste to landfill from three to four tonnes of waste every week to less than 100kg!
Anglo Recycling • 01706 853513 • www.anglorecycling.com