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    Composting

    WRAP helped finance Derbyshire’s Vital Earth (Derby) and Leicestershire’s JM Clarke & Son to expand their composting capacity. more

    WRAP is also supporting composting at Biffa Waste in Derbyshire, with £560,000 ofTomato plant seedling shot in early spring.funding.

    Another company benefiting from WRAP finance to expand composting capacity is William Sinclair Horticulture in Lincoln.

    Leasing equipment

    WRAP helped Northamptonshire recycling company Wastecom to lease a £1.1 million piece of equipment to sort construction and demolition waste. more

    WRAP also assisted recycling company Recresco to lease equipment for glass and plastics reprocessing through the eQuip programme. more

    Tyres

    A digger moves tyres from a large pileWRAP has funded trials to recycle used tyres into the worlds first all rubber road and rail highway at the Gefco car distribution centre in Corby, Northamptonshire.

    WRAP is also supporting a trial in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, using recycled tyres in bridleway surfaces. The project includes Nottinghamshire County Council and the University of Nottingham. more

    Wood

    Recycled wood chipsWRAP contributed over £600,000 to a £3.5 million wood recycling facility at R Plevin & Sons in Elkesley, Nottinghamshire. At full capacity the facility is able to reprocess nearly 100,000 tonnes of waste wood annually. more

    Business Support

    Technical expertise and investment support from WRAP have assisted Lincolnshire based plastics recycler Alternative Waste Solutions to develop Europe's largest plastic bottle sorting plant with a capacity of 60,000 tonnes per year. more

    Regional Resources

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    Packaging presentation at LARAC 2007     Presentation by Mark Barthel given at the LARAC conference in November 2007
    Last updated: Tue 5 Feb 2008
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    A recycling guide for offices     A recycling guide for offices
    Last updated: Wed 30 Apr 2008
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    A recycling guide for small retailers     A recycling guide for small retailers
    Last updated: Wed 30 Apr 2008
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    Segregated plasterboard collections at Household Waste Recycling Centres     The scheme effectively demonstrated that the implementation and management of a plasterboard collection scheme at a HWRC does not require significant resourcing requirements or changes to site practices. In certain circumstances, plasterboard recycling collections were shown to be cheaper than alternative methods of disposal and it is anticipated that as landfill tax increases, plasterboard recycling at HWRCs will become more significantly commercially viable. For details of a specific trial, select one of the links below.
    Last updated: Mon 29 Sep 2008
    FROM WRAP's ORGANICS SITE
    Newshoots - October 2007     Newshoots - October 2007
    Last updated: Wed 9 Jul 2008

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