WRAP investment helps boost wood recycling in U.K.The United Kingdom's Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has committed to investing more than 670,000 pounds ($1.323 million) in new wood recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. facilities, which will increase the quantity of post-consumer wood debris diverted di·vert v. di·vert·ed, di·vert·ing, di·verts v.tr. 1. To turn aside from a course or direction: Traffic was diverted around the scene of the accident. 2. from landfill. Urban Forest Ltd. and McGrath Brothers Ltd. will receive the funding to install new capacity to process recycled wood into value-added products. The funding was provided as part of WRAP's Capital Support Program, and encourages the sector to build new wood reprocessing Reprocessing may refer to:
Peter Maddox, WRAP's Manufacturing Development program manager, says: "WRAP looked for projects that could create new capacity to process post-consumer wood waste and serve dearly defined end-markets. These two projects are excellent examples that demonstrate that with the right facilities, waste wood can be put to good use and deliver significant returns. Waste material that would have normally gone to landfill is being successfully recycled into usable products that have a high value and are in demand." McGrath Brothers (Waste Control) Ltd., based in Hackney Hackney, inner borough (1991 pop. 164,200) of Greater London, SE England, on the Lea River. Clothing manufacture (in Hackney) and printing and furniture making (in Shoreditch) are the borough's chief industries. London's first theater was built in Shoreditch (c.1575). , London, was awarded a grant worth 325,000 pounds ($650,000) through an open competition process. A new wood recycling facility with a total investment of more than $2 million will be installed, which aims to fill a gap previously identified by WRAP for wood recycling in the South East of England The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England. It was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. . The facility will be able to process more than 21,000 metric tons of scrap wood a year. Urban Forest Ltd., Newry, received a grant of $695,000 from WRAP to expand and upgrade an existing facility. The funding will contribute to the purchase of new equipment with a total value of more than $3 million. Air grading, fine screening and cleaning equipment will facilitate the manufacture of more value-added products from waste wood. Two automatic bagging plants will also be installed. At full capacity it will be capable of reprocessing more than 19,000 metric tons of scrap wood per year, which will be diverted from landfill. This WRAP funding supports the increased tonnage TONNAGE, mar. law. The capacity of a ship or vessel. 2. The act of congress of March 2, 1799, s. 64, 1 Story's L. U. S. 630, directs that to ascertain the tonnage of any ship or vessel, the surveyor, &c. of wood that is being recycled. Wood is sourced from local authority waste facilities, wood packaging remnants, off cuts from manufacturing facilities, as well as commercial, demolition and construction material collected in bins. In order to be eligible for WRAP capital support, projects required dearly defined end markets, applications or products for the processed wood, where the majority will be used for value-added applications. These include landscaping applications, horticultural hor·ti·cul·ture n. 1. The science or art of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants. 2. The cultivation of a garden. products, equestrian equestrian a rider of horses. bedding and surfacing and animal bedding. |
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