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News Release from: Skanem
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 September 2007
Removing And Baling Waste Direct From
The Press
One hundred per cent of matrix waste produced by Skanem Liverpool (UK) is now removed direct from the presses and bailed.
That is the result of an environmental project focussed around the disposal of waste products from Skanem Liverpool's manufacturing process A new bailing system has been installed at site and the return and re-use of all ink, varnish and chemistry containers has also been introduced internally and with suppliers
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 21 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Skanem Liverpool's site managing director, Steve Dunne, said: "With the increasing focus on the environment in our day to day life and the spiralling costs for disposal of waste materials through landfill, it was critical that we reviewed our processes in this area.
This is a problem we all face in our daily lives and it is becoming key in any manufacturing business." He continued: "In the next 12-month period we had forecast a disposed waste figure of approximately 1,000 tonnes from our operation.
The majority of this was laminate, which was compacted and then taken away for landfill.
With the investments in equipment increasing our operational capacity and the uptake we have in now operating on a 24 hours per day, seven days-a-week basis, it became a key consideration as we would have to have emptied the compactor on a daily basis to deal with this increased tonnage." After waste is removed direct from the presses and bailed it is then loaded on to a transport sledge and removed free of cost from the site by recycling partners.
That waste is then converted in to plastic-formed user items for the building and agricultural sectors.
Dunne added: "The success of this project can now be clearly seen in the reduction of compactor collections to one per week from the previous three.
It has now become a real blueprint for the rest of the group to follow in going 'green' for ours and our children's future.".
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