05: Purification Products

Purification company filters their waste stream and saves pounds at the same time

Purification products are now diverting over 120 tonnes of waste a year thanks to Why Waste. Through the site they have set up exchanges of 50 pallets and 12 I.B.Cs (intermediate bulk containers) each month and 3 tonnes of Carbon powder each week.

The carbon powder and pallets are going to Nutramulch who specialise in recycling organic waste back into agriculture and as soil conditioners. Their belief is that there is a demand in the market place for purpose built, fully licensed composting facilities specifically for the many organic and mineral waste streams suitable for recycling into agriculture and top soil.

Purification products save up the pallets and then use a local transport company to carry them to Nutra mulch where they are composted. They also send odd ones out to schools who are interested in using them to make compost bins. The Carbon powder, (which had previously been put in plastic bags and land filled) is stored on site in paper, biodegradable bags and saved in a skip until ready for transport to Nutramulch for composting.
The I.B.Cs are going to two companies - Skymark who use them for storage and British Hardwoods, who make bio diesel and will be using them to store it in. Previously these large, plastic containers had been broken up and sent to landfill so it’s great to see them being re used..

Deborah Walton, Operations manager at Purification products said

“The website is a very easy and effective tool in recycling waste. The service has greatly reduced the amount of waste we send to landfill and its associated costs.”

And those costs were starting to mount up. Deborah continues…..

“We estimate that in disposal costs we are saving approximately £9000 per year and with landfill tax set to rise, so will the amount we are saving.”