The AWM Group, successful providers in complete waste management solutions have invested in excess of £200,000 into a Wolverhampton based Materials Recycling Facility.

The new facility will take up to 75,000 tonnes of a variety of non hazardous waste per year. The waste will then be segregated at the site to aid in the recycling of a high proportion of materials, which will include: plastics, cardboard, metals, stone, glass and soil.

Serving local businesses, the community and local authorities the new materials recycling facility site will assist in the achievement in reducing the amount of waste going to landfill for disposal.

“A growing number of businesses have environmental and corporate responsibility targets and this facility works in partnership with these enterprises whether large or small to attain these goals” said Paul Woodhead, Managing Director, “The facility helps make the ability for SMEs to satisfy their environmental aspirations where waste volumes are smaller and often co-mingled.”

A range of crushed and blended secondary aggregates from concrete, brick, stone and slags, will also be produced at the site in Wolverhampton. All of which will be used in a range of applications for construction, tarmac and cement manufacture, sporting surfaces and engineering. Further developments for the facility to enable more specialist blending and recycling operations are currently being planned.

In a recent assessment of the waste materials received from Wates Construction with a mixed batch of materials collected from the decent homes improvement initiative in Sandwell we achieved a 95% recycling rate. We are working proactively with a number of client partners to achieve ambitious waste reduction, landfill diversion and Resource Recovery and Reuse targets and objectives. Our innovative and progressive approach to solutions in this area is benefiting many regional businesses, local authorities and household names including British Waterways.