LOCAL COMPANIES SECURE MAJOR RECYCLING SACK CONTRACT

Following the disappointing announcement that a £1.4 billion contract to build new train carriages will not be handled by Bombardier in Derby, another Derbyshire based business has succeeded in bringing some good news and additional revenue to the local economy.

bpi.recycled products - a leading manufacturer of refuse and recycling sacks which operates from sites across the UK including a factory on the Heanor Gate Industrial Estate in Heanor - has secured a contract that will see it working with Biffa Leicester (the partnership company which deals with the collection, treatment and disposal of the City of Leicester’s domestic waste).

bpi.recycled products picked up the new customer after issues outside of Biffa’s control meant they had a requirement for a large number of recycling sacks – and in an incredibly short period of time.

In order to fulfil this need, bpi.recycled products pulled out all the stops, producing and delivering 3 million, printed, co-mingled recycling sacks in just four days - with all of the sacks being produced at the company’s Heanor site.

It was assisted in its efforts by Promopack - also based on the Heanor Gate Industrial Estate - which specialises in design and reprographics for the flexographic printing industry

Lorcan Mekitarian, Sales Director at bpi.recycled products said: “When we were approached by Biffa Leicester, the odds were very much against us. Issues outside of Biffa’s control meant they had a particularly challenging requirement both in terms of volumes needed and the timescales available. As a business with a ‘can do’ approach, bpi.recycled products was only too willing to step into the breach and do whatever we could to help out.”

The three million orange tinted sacks have been supplied on 60,000 rolls and will be used for collecting co-mingled recyclable material such as paper, plastic, cardboard, cans and glass. They are also made from 100% recycled UK polythene waste which bpi.recycled products recycles at its own network of Environment Agency approved UK facilities.

It adopts this approach in order to ensure products with a lower carbon footprint compared to most other 100% recycled refuse and recycling sacks which are typically made in the Far East – the waste being shipped there and recycled before the finished items are shipped back again.

Summing up, Lorcan Mekitarian adds: “Winning the Biffa Leicester business is great news not just for bpi.recycled products, but also for the wider economy.”

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Images: bpi rp Biffa Leicester 1.jp & bpi rp Biffa Leicester 2.jpg Caption: Community minded manufacturing. Pictured (left to right): Rebecca Wright, Sales Director at bpi.recycled products, with Mark Porter, Refuse and CRC Services Manager at Biffa Leicester 

For more information on this story, contact Wayne Mohammed or Emma Macey at PRECISION on 0161 638 8718 or e-mail: wayne@precision-online.co.uk or emma@precision-online.co.uk

Editor’s notes:

• bpi.recycled products is the largest recycler of used polythene in Europe recycling over 68,000 tonnes of post-use polythene material from horticultural, commercial, retail, industrial and agricultural markets.

• bpi.recycled products uses some of these materials to manufacture its award winning Plaswood range of sustainable wood-substitute products. These products include park and garden furniture, street and countryside signs, bollards and marine decking.

• The environmental benefits of recycling plastic are becoming more widely recognised: maximising reusable material, diverting waste from landfill and conserving resources. bpi.recycled products has developed the necessary expertise and the infrastructure in the form of a network of Environment Agency accredited recycling plants to help drive these benefits forward.

• bpi.recycled products is a division of BPI (British Polythene Industries) plc, one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of polythene films, bags and sacks.

• As a result of its commitment to operating in a sustainable way and to minimising the environmental impact of all of its activities, BPI won the Best Green Large Company category at the 2010 Scottish Green Awards.

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