Recycler opens two new satellite operations

Recovinyl recycler Dekura is investing in two new regional satellite operations to help further minimise the company's impact on the environment.

North East-based Dekura is one of the UK's leading PVC-U recyclers, collecting waste from more than 1,000 window and door fabricators.

As well as post-consumer waste, it collects and processes more than 17,000 tonnes of post production each year - most of this at its Peterlee plant.

Opening up the PVC-U recycling operations in the South West and Wales has enabled the recycler to take one of its trucks off the road, saving more than 100,000 miles a year and reducing emissions.

It is also replacing its fleet with the latest cleaner vehicles.

Dekura's investment was prompted by a full audit of its logistics operation and where most material was collected, as General Manager Tony Moore explains: 'As a national business based up in Peterlee, our distance from the rest of the UK does raise some logistical challenges.

So we felt it was important, as a business working in the sustainable sector, that we do everything we can to reduce our impact on the environment.

'Having analysed every aspect of the business and the journeys we make to see how best we could cut deliveries and collections to the absolute minimum, the answer was to set up two satellite operations.

Each has its own processing operation to granulate material before it is sent for re-processing, so every lorry carries a full load,' continues Tony.

Dekura's several million pounds investment has created one of the UK's most advanced processing plants producing fully recycled and reusable material.

Tony adds: 'In offering our customers the very best service, we have to make sure our own house is in order.

This benefits the environment, as well as making sound business sense.' Dekura is among the 30 Recovinyl recyclers nationwide processing waste PVC-U building materials from a variety of sources, from windows to pipes and conduit.

Recovinyl is funded by the PVC industry body Vinyl 2010 formed to demonstrate commitment to sustainable development.

It is backed by the British Plastics Federation and supported by the Waste and Resources Action Programme.

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