Mick George eyes market for plastic scrap compaction

Huntingdon, United Kingdom-based Mick George Ltd. indicates it sees China’s restrictions on importing plastic scrap as an added incentive for more plastic scrap baling and compacting activity in the U.K.

The waste and recycling hauling firm, in a mid-January 2018 news release, states, “While much of the media focus on China’s impending plastic import ban is geared toward authorities, industry professionals and recycling companies, it will inevitably have a consequence on all waste handlers further down the line, commercial and residential.”

The firm’s news release continues, “Specialist waste management suppliers will be genuinely looking to reduce your waste costs, while improving efficiencies and providing income streams from valuable recyclable commodities.”

The company indicates part of the solution lies in the increased placement of balers and compactors at points of scrap generation.

Mick George states it can offer a “comprehensive selection of waste balers and compactors” to its U.K. customers, with an opportunity for them “to buy or rent [and] reduce the amount of space occupied on premises, as well as the opportunity to save money on waste collection and handling costs.

The firm’s balers are designed to prepare recyclables into “financially valuable wire-bound bales ready for collection,” according the company, which adds it can offer vertical and horizontal balers. Its waste compactors are available in static and mobile designs in various configurations.

‘’The decision to provide compactors and balers to clients is an extension to our recycling division,” says Neil Johnson, technical waste director at Mick George Ltd. “The sector is quickly evolving, and we’re keen to ensure our offering does likewise to keep pace with the momentum to relieve some of the wider environmental issues that the world faces.’’