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U.K.-based Shanks Waste Management has commissioned its new £7 million (US$11 million) Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) in Kettering, Northamptonshire, U.K. At full capacity, the facility could create 35 new jobs and boost Shanks’ recycling capacity in the United Kingdom to more than 1.2 million metric tons.
The facility is expected to be operational by early 2012. The MRF will process more than 200,000 metric tons of industrial and commercial waste per year and achieve a 70 percent recovery rate. The facility also will sort commingled dry mixed recyclables to extract the maximum useful resource, including ferrous and non-ferrous metals, cardboard, paper, plastic and wood.
Commissioning of the Kettering MRF follows the recent official opening of Shanks’ MRF and its anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities in Glasgow, Scotland, and the commencement of construction of its new 60,000 metric tons per year AD facility in Bicester.
Ian Goodfellow, Shanks’ U.K. managing director, says, “At Shanks, we continue to invest in highly automated recycling and recovery technology to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill and incineration. We see waste as a valuable resource and are very pleased that with the opening of our new MRF in Kettering we can recover even more material.”