Paper money

A machine that bales waste paper is saving a national company over £500 a month as well as reducing the amount it sends to landfill.

Everbuild - an independent manufacturer of sealants, adhesives, fillers and building chemicals, produces 13 tonnes of waste a month from the packaging of its raw materials.

Until it installed a Greenbank paper baler, all of this was going to landfill and costing the Leeds-based company hundreds of pounds in skip emptying costs. Now, the waste is turned into 26 huge bales a month which are then sent for recycling.

Everbuild's environmental/health and safety manager Dave Whitford said they were so pleased with the baler that they have ordered a second. "We have dealt with Greenbank in the past and knew that their products were good and their service efficient," says Whitford.