New shropshire materials recycling facility creates new jobs
An investment of £1.5 million in a Materials Recycling Facility at Tudor Griffiths Group’s Wood Lane facility in Ellesmere, Shropshire, will recycle 90 percent of waste materials brought in to the site and vastly reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill.
At a series of open days for customers, suppliers and other interested representatives it was also announced that up to 30 local jobs are expected to be created at the plant, the largest and most advanced in Shropshire.
Councillor Keith Barrow, leader of Shropshire Council, officially opened the Materials Recycling Facility facility on Tuesday 12th June 2012.
Managing director, Tudor Griffiths said: “The TG Group’s Materials Recycling Facility is Shropshire’s most progressive waste management facility and will rank alongside the very best in the country. We believe this investment is good news for our company, local employment and the environment.”
Part of the funding for the 2,000 square metres Materials Recycling Facility plant was awarded to TGG by WRAP - a government funded organisation aimed at recycling and reducing waste. In 2008 TGG successfully applied for a grant of £245,000 towards its plans for the plant.
The facility has been carefully designed and constructed in conjunction with McPhillips, the Civil Engineering and Building Development Company based in Telford. Every aspect of the plant has been carefully considered to provide environmentally sustainable features including; the use of low energy lighting, an ergonomically designed picking station, a system to harvest rainfall from the plant’s roof and use it on-site for washing vehicle wheels and making use of electricity generated from its efficient on-site power plant
For every container of waste processed at the Materials Recycling Facility plant, more than 90% of its contents are re-claimed and recycled. Wood, bricks, metal, paper, cardboard, ferrous metal and many more materials are all separated and recycled into usable products. The soil that is removed is used for restoration projects.
Although less than 10% of the waste processed ends up on a landfill site even this is not unproductive. The landfill waste produces methane, which is captured to help produce the electricity that powers the plant and local community.
Re claimed bricks and rubble are crushed and used on construction sites helping to fulfil the growing pressure on producers and consumers to reduce the consumption of primary aggregates by switching to recycled or secondary aggregates.
The TG Group has pioneered the use of recycled materials in numerous construction projects. Concrete and masonry is screened and crushed at the Materials Recycling Facility to produce a huge range of products.
Among these products are; aggregates, fills and soils. Wood is shredded and screened and used in chipboard manufacture and agricultural processes. Some of the timber - in wood chippings form - is also used to produce biomass, a renewable energy source that is valuable for many purposes including production of electricity.
Upvc window frames are shredded to form plastic regrind, metals are shredded and melted down for further processes and cardboard and paper is baled and sent to paper mills.
An informative booklet, produced by TGG is available on request and describes the Materials Recycling Facility process and what it means to the local community.
