Viridor has completed a £1 million upgrade of its Scottish glass recycling plant and has secured a Scottish Procurement contract covering five Scottish local authorities.
As part of the contract, worth £1.3 million, Viridor will provide a solution for around 10,500 tonnes of local authority secondary municipal glass material per annum.
Viridor has secured a new contract following a £1 million upgrade of its Scottish glass recycling plant at Newhouse
The contract is for two years, with two one-year extensions, and covers the council areas of Angus, Dundee, Perth & Kinross, Scottish Borders and West Lothian. The contract gives each authority the option of either delivering the glass or to use Viridor’s haulage.
Newhouse
According to Viridor Resource Management managing director, Keith Trower, the upgrade of Viridor’s £25m facility in Newhouse, near Motherwell, is part of the company’s commitment to meeting the high quality cullet standards required by Scottish bottlemakers and to achieving Viridor’s circular economy goals.
Newhouse – which has been described as one of the UK’s most advanced facilities – was a £25m investment which opened in 2015, and is designed to offer a closed loop solution for container glass in Scotland. The facility is reported to recover up to 97% of input materials.
The glass recycling site features Mogensen technology and uses advanced colour-sort recycling, capable of managing both mixed and colour-segregated glass.
The centre encompasses 15 ‘scientific eye’ optical sorters, x-ray sorters, over half a kilometre of conveyor belts and 2.5km of electrical cabling across three floors of processing towers.
[gallery_placement]All of the cullet recycled at the facility is sold to bottlemakers, to be manufactured into new bottles and jars.
‘Significant step’
Paul Brown, Viridor’s managing director of recycling and integrated assets, said the contract win was “a significant step in ensuring the company was able to supply the level of feedstock needed by the Scottish remelt sector, especially to address increasing demand in the whisky and gin sector.”
Services for Angus, Dundee, Perth and Kinross and West Lothian began on 2 April, Scottish Borders will join on 1 May, 2019.
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