Centriforce recently announced an exciting collaboration with Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions Ltd (BBUSL) and V10 Polymers to develop a closed loop recycling initiative for construction waste plastic.
Initially stemming from an innovation meeting between the partners to explore how they could work closer together and meet the objectives of all the organisations, this initiative ticks all the boxes. Its sensible economically by keeping the value of the waste stream, its sensible environmentally by utilising a high quality waste stream and turning it back into usable, second-life products and….its just makes sense.
The system works by BBUSL collating its waste material at its depots or sites up and down the country. V10 Polymers houses a skip at each main site and at a pre-determined frequency arranges to collect the skip and take it back to its Blackburn facility for sorting, cleaning and granulation. Centriforce, then plays its part by taking the usable waste stream and turning it into a second life product, in this case, underground cable protection covers which BBUSL then can buy back and utilise for new installation and repair work that it undertakes on behalf of major utility client companies.
V10 Polymers uplift plastic waste for recycling
Centriforce will actively try to develop closed loop solutions with major clients since they make sense environmentally and helps our client companies meet their corporate social responsibility objectives. A win, win, win solution.
If you know of a company that generates large quantities of waste plastic which it wants to find both an outlet for, and perhaps an application, then drop us a phone call to explore further. We’ve demonstrated in this example we have the means to make it work and would be delighted to hear from other companies with similar ambitions.
