Bulk Handling Systems announced yesterday that they will be designing, manufacturing and installing four new Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) for the waste management company SITA UK.
The new facilities will be located in Avonmouth, Birmingham, Darwen and South London. Between them the MRFs are expected to process more than 250,000 tonnes of recyclables, sorting mostly commercial waste collections ready for further processing in UK and overseas markets.
“These facilities … will provide us with additional processing capacity in strategic areas across the UK, allowing us to improve our service offering to our customers,” said Ben Harding, SITA UK’s Head of Infrastructure Development. “The new facilities will also lead to the creation of many jobs, both in their construction and long term operation and maintenance.”
Although all the projects have planning permission, only the Avonmouth and Birmingham sites are expected to be operational before the end of the year. The others will be constructed during 2013. These new SITA UK MRFs will join the 32 already operating in the country.
Maidenhead-based SITA UK is a recycling and waste management company (and subsidiary of SUEZ Environnement) that handles over eight million tonnes of waste a year in the UK through recycling, composting, energy-from-waste and landfill sites. BHS, whose headquarters are in Oregon, design and manufacture industrial sorting systems used in many recycling facilities.
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