Viridor

Recycling

Viridor currently provides its public and private sector customers with an extensive range of recycling and resource recovery services.

This begins with our recycling collection services and subsequent separation of domestic and commercial materials in our Materials Recycling Facilities (MRFs) or at some or our Waste Transfer Stations.

It ends up with the sale of quality recovered materials to reprocessors and end-users.

They range from manufacturers who turn our clean crushed glass cullet into new bottles or fibre glass insulation to construction companies who use our secondary aggregates, made from demolition wastes.

The UK still has some distance to go before it recycles at the levels achieved in some other European countries. However the tonnages of materials that are recycled or recovered in some way have been rising steadily.

There is no doubt that this positive trend will continue for the foreseeable future as the UK has to meet demanding targets and non-compliance is potentially very expensive.

The main regulatory drivers to be addressed are the:

• Landfill Directive and resulting regulations
• Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme (LATS)
• Pre-treatment regulations
• Producer Responsibility Regulation for packaging waste
• WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directive.
  

There are of course clear environmental benefits from improved resource efficiency and recycling.