Grundon currently operate four Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs), one at Slough, Leatherhead, Reading and another at Oxford. The material recovered includes paper, card, metals and plastics.

Our MRF at Oxford processes construction waste and recovers 75% of all plastics, timber, brick, concrete, aggregates and metals.

The most efficient way to recycle waste streams is to separate them at source and to use a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) as a back up to extract some more of the recyclables out of the general waste stream.

MRF's serve to add value to mixed recyclables by a variety of methods such as sorting and bulking-up (storing materials until a larger quantity is obtained). Several materials are recovered at the Slough MRF, including:

• Paper - (including news and PAMS) manually hand picked and bulk transferred to paper mill for reprocessing
• Ferrous Metal - mechanically picked by magnet and bulk transferred to Steel manufacturer.
• Non-Ferrous Metal - mechanically picked by eddy current separator and bulk transferred to Alcan.
• Plastics - hand picked and sent to reprocessor for use in making ducting pipes.
• Cardboard - bulked up and sent to board mill for reprocessing.

However Grundon do believe that this is only a back up service to recycling initiatives within organisations as recycling at source has been proved to be the most successful route to take. Therefore Grundon provide several services for source-separated materials including wheeled bins for mixed glass, office paper and plastics and larger containers for cardboard and mixed recyclables. We would hope to expand on these services in the future.

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