Plastic arts at school and at the HWRC
in Bury (United Kingdom)
Gardner Aerospace’s
Recycling with
FCC Environment Takes Off
The household waste recycling centre
(HWRC) at Bury St. Edmunds is now de-
corated with the recycling-inspired works
of art drawn by the students at the Laken-
heath, Suffolk (UK) primary school.
Dan Pepper, who works at the recycling
centre, organised an art competition for
Lakenheath school pupils in collabora-
tion with the Town Council. He visited the
school to explain how HWRCs work and
asked students to make posters about re-
cycling.
“We were thrilled to work with a local school
on this project and those posters liven up
the site as well as making visitors think
about the importance of recycling, com-
posting, and reusing waste”.
Gardner Aerospace, one of Europe’s lea-
ding suppliers of aerospace parts, has
achieved zero waste to landfill at its Derby
facility by working with recycling and waste
management company FCC Environment.
Since January 2013, FCC Environment has
been working towards diverting 100% of
the site’s waste away from landfill disposal
and delivering substantial landfill tax sa-
vings.
After auditing the waste produced at the
Derby facility, FCC Environment’s expert
team recommended separating different
materials for recycling together with reco-
vering energy from the remaining materials
that cannot be recycled.
This plan was implemented and now
FCC Environment diverts all of Gardner
Aerospace’s waste away from landfill ins-
tead of paying 72 pounds sterling for every
tonne in landfill tax.
FCC Environment collects waste directly
from the Derby site which goes to its brand
new 3.2 million recycling facility (MRF) in Al-
freton which separates materials that can
be recycled.
The left over waste is then used to genera-
te renewable energy at FCC Environment’s
Eastcroft plant in Nottingham, which provi-
des steam for an extensive district heating
system.
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