Firm bringing waste back to town
HUNDREDS of tonnes of card and plastic is to be shipped into North Lincolnshire's recycling centres.
Food firm Nisa Today's has said waste from 35 of its franchises will be brought to its Scunthorpe depot for recycling.
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SCHEME: Nisa Today's ambient warehouse in Scunthorpe. The firm is to bring cardboard and shrink wrap back from deliveries to its different depots and recycle it locally.
The green scheme will involve lorry drivers bringing rubbish back with them from places where collections are hard to organise.
John Sharpe, managing director of Central Distribution Trading and Logistics at Nisa Today's, said: "We are trialling this service to save time and money for members, many of whom have small quantities of packaging waste.
"This will also further increase recycling volume from our Scunthorpe warehouse."
The scheme will not start until January and it has not yet been confirmed exactly where in the region the collected waste will end up being recycled.
Nisa already recycles cardboard and the Scunthorpe warehouse has been a major contributor to 500 tonnes of waste recycled across three of its firms in the past year.
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5 Comments
by Mike, Scunthorpe
Saturday, November 15 2008, 7:57PM
“I work at that warehouse and it's all right saying that cardboard will be brought back and re-cycled, the firm throws out thousands of tin cans (pop cans) every day because they were going to have to pay someone to come and collect them to re-cycle them.”
by Rob, Winterton
Saturday, November 15 2008, 5:08PM
“How funny it is that scunthorpe Winterton & Dragonby get other county councils rubbish dumped on us yet we dont see any of the benefit except our trees and fields covered in binliners and shopping bags blowing in the wind. And the odd whale that might wash up.”
by keith, scunny
Saturday, November 15 2008, 4:41PM
“I hope that is not aimed at migrant workers or those of ethnic origin..Bill”
by Bill, South Humberside
Saturday, November 15 2008, 2:47PM
“Scunthorpe seems to atract rubbish.”
by Rob, Winterton
Saturday, November 15 2008, 11:48AM
“Some good news for a change I have loads of cardboard looooo-rolls if they want”