Devon Contract Waste - Zero to landfill

Visit http://www.dcw.co.uk for commercial waste recycling services to manage and recycle your waste material. Zero to landfill is Devon Contract Waste's campaign to raise awareness on how waste no longer has to go to landfills, instead it can be recycled to be reused. ---------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Devon Contract Waste Like us on Facebook -   / zerotolandfill   Tweet us on Twitter -   / dcw_uk   Subscribe to our Youtube channel -    / devoncontractwaste   Find out more about Devon Contract Waste - http://www.dcw.co.uk TRANSCRIPT This is Devon -- arguably the most beautiful county in England. Yet every year the county sends six thousand tonnes of waste to landfill. This is possible because DCW have invested over four million pounds in a new state-of-the- art materials recycling facility. Housed here at Envirohub, their new site at Marsh Barton, Exeter, this plant is the only one of its kind in the South West and one of only a handful in the entire UK. The plant is capable of processing three hundred tonnes per day and will play a pivotal role in the Zero to Landfill programme. So how does it work? Unsorted mixed waste is transported to Envirohub from around the county and is emptied out at the plant. From the ground, it is lifted by a mechanical grabber and placed into the hopper where it is shredded down to a maximum size of three hundred millimetres. From the shredder the waste is fed via a long incline belt to the trommel screen. The optics are positioned over the belt and recognise the different classes of material. Here, this optic is set to separate soft plastic film. When it sees an item of soft plastic approaching, it triggers a jet of air which hits the item as it crosses the end of the belt, blowing it on to the conveyor that sits behind the optic hood. It then passes the second optic, which is set to select all paper and card products, which fall into the bay behind the optic hood All metals are collected in the skips below. Anything left will also go into a refuse-derived fuel product, known as RDF. All the sorted non-metallic materials end up in these bays below the plant. Periodically the contents will be baled and wrapped ready to be transported. So where does it all go? The metals will be sent for recycling back into raw material locally. Recovered paper is classed as 'hard mix' and will be recycled into tissue such as toilet roll and hand towels. Plastics are recycled in the UK into new products. Card is generally shipped to China for recycling. Whether clear sacks, wheelie bins or the new front end loaders, DCW can handle them all swiftly and efficiently and their customers can be confident that they are doing the best for the environment, both locally and globally, with minimum fuss. For more information on how DCW can help you solve your waste management issues and to join the Zero to Landfill campaign, contact them on 01392 361300 or go to www.dcw.co.uk