A place for everything

Organic Waste is striving for zero waste - starting at its Bristol treatment centre and eventually spreading to all other eleven sites.

As a member of Wessex Water's Waste Recycling Forum, Amy Brown, GENeco's
biosolids recycling controller, has been evaluating all the areas of general waste across the entire Bristol and Berry Hill sewage treatment works. Amy has identified and established recycling systems that should eliminate general waste being sent to landfill.

This is both good environmental and good economic sense.

Wastes such as broken pallets and wooden packaging, old overalls, rags, gloves and other textiles, miscellaneous plastic packaging and even food containers and crisp packets now have dedicated collection and recycling routes.

For tanker drivers using the Organic Waste treatment centres it means the general waste bins have disappeared and a range of recycling options for paper, card, plastics, cans and tetrapacks will appear in the reception or kitchen areas.

So next time, when you visit one of our Organic Waste treatment centres and perhaps take the opportunity to clean out the cab, just remember there is now a place for everything.

Organic Waste news - Spring 2011