Scotland produces over 3.3 million tonnes of municipal waste each year.  More than 85% of this waste is sent directly to landfill.

The National Waste Plan, launched by SEPA and the Scottish Executive in  February 2003, outlines how we can achieve increased levels of recycling and overall reduction in the amount we produce by 2020.

Hamilton Waste & Recycling Ltd are committed to helping achieve these targets through our own system of waste management and environmental policy ensuring that only the minimum tonnage of waste is actually sent to landfill.

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J Haig Hamilton & Sons have been operating a licensed landfill site at Drem since 1992.  The site has planning permission until 2013. 

TRANSFER STATION - DREM

Adjacent to the landfill site at Drem is a Transfer Station where mixed construction and demolition waste (which is contaminated with wood, paper, metal etc) is recycled.  This material comes mainly from our skip business at Wallyford but we also receive an amount from building contractors who are dealing responsibly with their waste.

The material is firstly screened to take out the soils.  The remaining material, which consists of rubble, wood, paper, plastic and metal runs under a magnet which extracts all the ferrous metal.  After the magnet the material is hit by an air knife which extracts all the small pieces of wood, paper and plastic.  The remaining material goes along a picking belt where one picker takes off large pieces of plastic; another picker takes off wood which is sent away for further processing.  The remainder of the material, which consists of contaminated aggregate, goes in to a water separator which floats off the last of the contaminants.  The clean aggregate then goes straight into the Extec C10 Crusher and the finished product is sold as 6F2 Crusher Run.

So, in a one-pass system we have quality, useable and saleable products in the form of crushed recycled aggregate, scrap metal, clean wood and screened soil. 

The waste products which have been extracted from the air knife and the water separator are then taken to an active waste landfill site.  Of the inputs to the system, 90-95% of the waste material tonnage is a saleable or reusable product; only 5-10% is waste products.