Waste compacting to a tea

Tata Global Beverage's Eaglescliffe tea factory, which is home to the Tetley brand, has reduced its waste removal transport costs from one of its production halls by 20%, using a waste compactor.

Since waste handling and recycling equipment supplier Greenbank installed the machine at the Teesside plant, skip collections have been cut from once a week to once or twice a month. That, in turn, has meant a reduction in its transport costs and carbon footprint.

Manufacturing engineer,Mike Peacock, said they were not the only benefits: "Our housekeeping has also improved significantly because the mobile compactor is enclosed, whereas a standard waste skip is totally open. "Waste materials - especially tea dust and light cardboard packaging - used to get blown out of the skip creating cleanliness and housekeeping issues." Greenbank installed a Mobile Compactor model PCW20 to help the company dispose of a mixture of waste tea bags, cardboard cartons, corrugated cardboard and plastic film.