Materials Recycling

We are currently recycling in excess of 80% of incoming waste and diverting it from landfill for reprocessing or recycling.

Once collected, all Skips and Roll On/Off containers are brought back to our purpose built Recycling Facility in Bathgate.

The waste is then segregated using the latest screening and sorting equipment, which removes soil based materials for composting.

Next, the remaining waste is carried along conveyor belts and under an overband magnet which removes any metal. It then goes on through the picking station, where a final sort is carried out manually to remove recyclable waste such as wood, glass and plastic and to allow any bricks and concrete blocks to pass on uncontaminated.

A final high pressure blower removes smaller items before the material goes on to be crushed.

Recovered aggregate, this includes bricks and concrete, is first processed in the crusher, which breaks the large lumps up into reusable sized pieces. This crushed material is then put through a screener which removes the 'fines'. The 'fines' are basically anything under 50mm in size; these are removed to allow the aggregate to be sold in different categories.

The larger particles of aggregate are used mostly for roadmaking, for making hard standing areas and for general infill systems. This form of re-use also saves on quarry tax.

Cardboard, polythenes and plastics are also segregated and baled on site.

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Pre-sorted waste. Larger items such as cardboard, timber and concrete are removed.

Baled cardboard.