Countrystyle Recycling has won a four-year plastic bottle collection contract with Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council in Kent.

Starting this month (May 2014), the waste management firm will collect plastics bottles deposited at the council’s public plastic bottle bring banks – located at 10 sites across the borough – and transport them to the firm’s wood waste and plasterboard facility in Ridham for baling.

The baled plastics (including milk bottles and plastic toiletry containers) will then be sent on to plastics reprocessors, such as Closed Loop’s Dagenham plastic bottle facility, to be recycled into food-grade plastic (dependent on quality).

Countrystyle has provided specialist containers (pictured above) to the council to collect the estimated 300 tonnes of plastic bottles deposited for recycling at public recycling points every year.

Speaking of the contract, Countrystyle’s Managing Director Chris Howard said: “Our aim is to support Kent’s local authorities and businesses by providing services that are reliable, flexible, cost effective and most importantly, locally available right here in Kent…

“We collect dry mixed recyclables quickly and efficiently from customers with waste across Kent and further afield; we sort, process and convert waste into new end products and quality raw materials; and finally, we deliver our tailored products to reprocessors and end users. Making sure our haulage fleet and our facilities have a low carbon footprint is a key part of our plan as is aligning our network of facilities to ensure route optimisation.”

Countrystyle already delivers commercial dry mixed recycling services throughout Kent. In 2012, it sold 10 of its organic waste plants to Tamar Energy.

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