Helping businesses comply with Scottish waste regulations – making your business more sustainable.

Through our Dry Mixed Recycling Facility (DMR) you can recycle all your Paper and Packaging i.e. Cardboard, Plastic Film, Cans, and Plastic Bottles. Providing that the dry waste isn’t contaminated by other waste, such as waste food left or liquid residue. Fully separating waste materials into different streams is not always possible, but DMR is a lot more straightforward and requires less waste containers if space is at a premium. It also means less time sorting waste.

Upon collection every skip is returned to our purpose built recycling centre. Each skip is visually checked on arrival and tipped according to the nature of the waste contents. The recycling process then starts. The waste is loaded into our trommel waste separator. This is a giant revolving drum similar to a sieve through which the dirt and earth drops. The remaining waste drops from the trommel onto a large conveyor belt, from which recyclable materials can be picked.

This process recovers approximately 80 – 85% of materials suitable for recycling, such as cardboard, paper, wood and plastics. The remaining 15 – 20% of dirty and contaminated waste is still unfortunately, forwarded to landfill but with improving techniques and new markets opening we hope to bring this rate down even lower.