Waste Management and Recycling
Scotland produces over 3.3 million tonnes of municipal waste each year. More than 80% 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.
Hamilton Waste & Recycling Ltd operates three transfer and recycling stations in the Lothians area. Waste is brought into the three sites mostly from our vehicles but also from our customer vehicles. The waste is tipped, and separated into the different waste streams through mostly mechanical separation before going into a picking station where separation is done manually.
The following wastes are segregated into their different streams before being further processed and sold onto the final markets. Our final recycled products are as follows:
• Recycled Aggregate in the form of 6F2 crusher run and type 1
• Shredded Wood • Ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal
• Baled paper & cardboard
• Baled plastics
• Screened Topsoil
• Composted green waste
Hamilton Waste & Recycling Ltd have invested heavily in waste processing and recycling technology at their transfer stations, which ensures that as much waste as possible is recycled and diverted from landfill. Hamilton Waste & Recycling Ltd has invested in waste and recycling technology, a first for Scotland, for example:
• Turn key plasterboard recycling facility
• Sandvik QE440 Screen
Hamilton Waste & Recycling Ltd are fully committed to investing in new equipment and technology to recycle as much waste as possible while diverting this material away from landfill. This coupled with Hamilton Waste & Recycling Ltd Smeaton development, which is a 15 acre state of the transfer station just off the Edinburgh bypass, demonstrates our commitment to investing in the future of recycling.
