'Waste Recycling Operative Required'

PMG have a vacancy for an Operative to work in our waste recycling facility in Bristol. The successful person will be helping us achieve our proud status of 'zero waste to Landfill'. Our facility recycles the waste generated by our own fleet of vehicles and also for external customers. The ideal candidate will have a class 2 HGV licence, experience of operating machinery and working with waste. This is a good opportunity to join a well established company that is going places. Please call Dave to discuss this further on our main office number.

Zero waste to landfill from the PMG Services’ recycling facility

Hang on to your hats, fellow sustainability fanatics – we can now proudly boast that none of the road sweeping and gully ‘wastes’ which we collect on a daily basis are going to landfill.

Yes, that’s zero waste to landfill, largely thanks to our recently passing the quality protocol (see my blog last month dated 15th April). We recycle or reuse the entire content, by separating sand, gravel and stones and sending them off to be reused for road surfacing and construction or, in the case of high-grade organic materials, compost or remediation. We also separate any litter which we send for reprocessing, much of which is used to make refuse-derived fuels. We even send the water content off to treatment works to be recycled.

Road sweepings are no longer a waste: as our Quality Protocol for the Production of Aggregates gains approval

We’re thrilled to report the Environment Agency has approved our ‘quality protocol’ for the production of aggregates from our road sweepings/gully waste recycling plant. This means all the waste materials we pick up by our own fleet and process can be reused rather than sent to landfill as we ensure they lose the criteria which class them as ‘waste’.

This is such a win-win-win situation for everyone. To name but three benefits, materials are put to good use instead of being landfilled; they’re cheaper for onward users to buy than ‘virgin’ aggregates; and it helps our clients to meet their sustainability targets.