Thanks to a multi-million-pound investment from a Gloucestershire company in a state- of-the-art piece of German kit, that cartoon caper has become a reality. Allstone and Speedy Skips made the decision to invest £5.2million in a waste management system last year and it has already started paying its keep. Simon Ford, managing director of the Gloucester- based firm, said the plant has enabled the company to record a 15 per cent rise in the amount of waste it is able to recycle. Now, the firm which started trading in 1983 and employs more than 70 people, is sending just two per cent of every skip load to landfill – with the rest finding a second use and, vitally, resale value. Mr Ford said: “Last year we invested £5.2million in
the business. Most of that was in a waste recycling plant and facility from Germany. “We looked for around four or five years for a plant that would be ahead of the curve. We wanted one that would take waste streams that other plants wouldn’t. “Due to it being a state-of-the-art facility we now have increased our recycling rate dramatically. We were recycling 83 per cent already, but now we have gone up to 98 per cent.”
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