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Firm welcomes waste glass mountain

A campaign to encourage licensed premises throughout the North of England to send their waste glass for recycling, rather than to landfill, has provided a boost to a growing business in the Tees Valley.

J&B Recycling of Hartlepool, which already collected waste glass from licensed premises between Northumberland and North Yorkshire, was one of the first companies to register for the ‘Have you got the Bottle’ campaign, run jointly by Renew Tees Valley (RTV), Recycling Action Yorkshire (RAY) and Envirolink Northwest. The three organisations used leaflets, a website and the trade and local media to seek to persuade 17,000 licensees throughout the North to dispose of their waste glass through specialist collection companies such as J&B.

Due to the enthusiastic response, an additional 4-acre site has also been brought into early use to handle the increased volumes.

J&B Recycling originally entered the recycling sector to keep its 12 staff and transport fleet in work following the decline of its traditional solid fuel business. It now employs more than 90 people handling kerbside materials and providing site management in partnership with numerous local authorities, operating a skip hire business and collecting waste glass from licensed premises, as well as providing third party contract transport services.

RTV has worked with the company on a number of projects - including carrying out market research into the glass recycling sector and supporting the development of a new website – www.jbrecycling.co.uk.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .