With news on: Norfolk set for new recycling centres; Jones Bros nears completion of Suez landfill cell; Mayglothing extends corrosive waste capabilities; and, Andusia and Mick George strike RDF deal
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Norfolk set for new recycling centres
Norfolk county council has approved plans for three brand new ‘replacement’ recycling centres in the county as part of a £7.2 million development over the next two years.
The new sites will be replacing the existing recycling centres currently at Mile Cross, Wymondham and Wereham.
The King’s Lynn recycling centre in Norfolk, one of 20 in the county
As part of the plans, another reuse shop will also be opened, as well as an expansion of Sheringham’s recycling centre and improvements to facilities for site staff.
The plans were approved by the Environment, Development and Transport Committee of the council last week.
Cllr Martin Wilby, chairman of the committee, said: “We’re planning for the future by looking to provide some bigger and better recycling centres and to make improvements to the popular service we’re already very proud of.
“We’re all increasingly mindful of the need to become a less throw-away society and this has helped fuel our drive to open even more reuse shops.”
There are currently 20 recycling centres in Norfolk, attracting about 1.2 million user visits per annum.
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Jones Bros nears completion of SUEZ landfill cell
Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK has said it had to remove an extra 14,000 cu m of sandstone when working on a SUEZ UK landfill cell at the SUEZ UK Whinney Hill landfill in Lancashire.
The company says it had expected to remove 6,000 cu m of sandstone but once the work started it realised there was considerably more.
Pat Alan, Jones Bros project manager, at the Whinney Hill land fill site
However, the company says this did not delay the works.
“Thanks to Jones Bros owning its own fleet of plant, it was able to quickly call on additional resources to not only avoid delays, but to complete bulk excavation ahead of schedule,” a spokesperson for Jones Bros said.
Jones Bros was appointed by SUEZ recycling and recovery UK for both phase one and two of the project.
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Mayglothing extends corrosive waste capabilities
Nationwide waste management company Mayglothing Waste is now able to provide “safe transportation and treatment of acids and other hazardous corrosive waste materials”.
According to the company, this is due to its investment in a “high specification acid vacuum tanker”, making it one of the few UK waste management providers to offer this service.
Mayglothing Waste’s new acid vacuum tanker
This latest investment has already received “interest” from commercial firms, who need to transport and dispose of hydrochloric and sulphuric acid from sites UK wide.
Managing director of the company, Jonathon Mayglothing, said: “For years, we have transported a huge variety of liquid waste from animal byproducts to oils and fuels, where the only gap in our offering was corrosive material not suitable for stainless steel tanks.”
He added: “Thankfully we can now offer the complete transport and treatment service to the industrial sector, supported by our own on-site Chemist.”
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Andusia and Mick George strike RDF deal
Andusia Recovered Fuels and Mick George have “formed a partnership” to supply RDF waste material to EfW plants in Europe.
Andusia and Mick George will work together to export 20,000 tonnes of RDF to Norway and the Netherlands
The contract is for 20,000 tonnes annually for RDF being sent to plants in the Netherlands and Norway.
Mark Terrell, director at Andusia said he is looking forward to the contract starting: “We are very excited to be joining forces with Mick George”.
Mr Terrell added: “We are always looking for reliable and dependable waste suppliers, and this is exactly what we have found.”
According to the two companies, the waste will be recovered and used to create energy and electricity, “therefore avoiding UK landfill”.
Commenting on the partnership, Neil Johnson, technical director at Mick George Ltd added: “As a business we are continually investing in sustainable mechanisms to achieve greater levels of landfill diversion. The partnership that we have formed with Andusia certainly aligns with that target.”
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