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ANGLO Recycling used to send the skip in the image full of between 3-4 tonnes of waste to landfill every Friday. More than 90% of it was dust and short fibres from its carpet recycling process.
Fibre lengths below 30mm are too short to be made into carpet underlay at its site in Lancashire, and recycling virgin carpet offcuts can mean 10-15% of fibres fall below the 30mm.

Says Simon Macaulay, chairman at Anglo Recycling: ‘My colleague Martin Street sat down with Ross Freedman of Fresh Start which deals with our skips and they worked out if we kept the dust and short fibres separate we’d still need the big skip – but every Friday it would go to the Hooton Bio Power facility and be turned into electricity.

‘So we just have a baby skip for other rubbish. But the clever people at Fresh Start then hand-sort that rubbish and manage to recycle 75% of it. So I reckon we’ve gone from between 3-4 tonnes of waste to landfill every week to less than 100kg.’
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