Casepak Materials Recovery Facility
Our new Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) sorts dry mixed recyclables which include:
- paper - newspapers, magazines, catalogues, telephone directories (including Yellow Pages and other catalogues), envelopes (including window envelopes), computer paper, office paper (white and coloured), junk mail and flyers, shredded paper, greetings cards and other papers including clean paper bags and wrapping paper
- card - cardboard and corrugated boxes, egg boxes, cereal boxes, other display and food packaging, TetraPak and juice cartons
- glass - bottles and jars of all colours
- steel - steel food and drink cans
- aluminium - aluminium food and drink cans, foil, aerosols
- plastic - plastic drinks bottles (all types including milk, water, fizzy drinks, cleaning products and beauty products), plastic food trays and containers (rigid plastic), plastic film and bags (including carrier bags and bubble wrap)
Located in Leicester, just minutes from the M1, the MRF is one of the newest in the UK and has been fitted with some of the most advanced technology currently available to sort and separate highly mixed recyclable materials.
Resource recovery
The MRF has the capacity to sort 150,000 tonnes of dry mixed recovered materials a year and aims to recover 95% of the material processed as a resource. The process produces:
- the best resource quality
- high resource values
Materials storage
The MRF has large pre- and post-treatment storage areas. This gives additional flexibility to manage fluctuating amounts of recyclable materials from kerbside collections.
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