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The best and most efficient way to recycle cardboard is by using a cardboard baler. If you regularly have a large volume of cardboard waste, it is most likely already sorted or segregated. You possibly already put it into a cardboard container marked for “cardboard only”. This is a start, but there is a lot more you can do to enhance your “carbon footprint” and save yourself money in the long-term.

When cardboard is put in a council wheelie bin (usually an 1100litre bin), it is not always the most economical way to dispose of the cardboard. We all hear the phrases “footprints” and “carbon footprints”. A footprint is the space taken up by a typical baler on your premises. A small baler may take up 3ft by 3ft of floor space. That is its “footprint”.

A “carbon footprint” is something completely different and should be thought about more than it normally is.

Strong Recycling Balers Ltd makes balers in the West Midlands and supplies them to all company's wanting to recycle in a more carbon neutral way, while reducing their cost for waste disposal.

Westminster Council recently leased a baler for their cardboard and plastic waste at Sayers Croft, Ewhurst, Cranleigh GU6 7SS. They are very satisfied with it. With a bit of luck, the Westminster Council will take on more of Strong Recycling Balers Machinery, at numerous sites throughout its area.

Strong Recycling Balers also recently supplied a small baler costing £12.00 per week, on lease-hire, to a steel stock-holder. Before the client had their W40 baler, a 12 cubic yard container full of paper was collected every day, with a large diesel lorry. The W40 baler uses very little electrical power to produce 50kg bales of paper. The baler is simple and safe to use and the overflowing container amounts to 2 bales per day. The bales are tidily organized on pallets. Instead of collecting a lorry-load of paper each day, costing wages and using untold amounts of diesel, the palletized bales can now be taken away fortnightly. There is a huge saving in diesel fuel and wages, with 10X less gas guzzling vehicles on the road. The carbon footprint is very much enhanced and the charge to the client of moving the waste can also be greatly reduced. The W40 baler costs £12 per week to purchase over a 5 year period - but there are 10 times less vehicles burning fuel on the road.

If all the Councils in the UK, can now apply the same method for collecting waste in government buildings, schools, colleges, hospitals and other locations, carbon footprints can be greatly reduced. In fact, further savings can also be made in the collection of the waste.

The Government is enforcing cutbacks on outlay throughout the United Kingdom. Here is a terrific way for councils to make large savings. Contemplate any government building which has say 3 x 1100 litre bins collected weekly. These bins will cost at least £11.00 each to be emptied. There is as a rule a weekly rental for each bin of approximately £1. The cost of these dustbin lorries is huge and I wonder if the cost has even been subsidised in the past.

If you replace the 3 weekly wheelie bins (Total £36.00), with a baler (£12.00), you will save £24 on the weekly cost of removing your waste. This is at one site only. There is a network of Private Businesses, all through the UK, who repeatedly collect cardboard bales free of charge for recycling purposes. The Cardboard, Plastic, Paper and other baled waste materials can be collected free of charge by these Private Companies. The waste materials have a commercial value for recycling.

So there is a real cost saving to the council of £24 per week on a conventional site. Imagine if 10,000 Council locations throughout the UK could each save £24.00 per week. That would mean a Council Reduction nationwide of £240,000 per week. That represents an annual saving of £12,500,000 to the Councils UK wide. There would be a vast decline of dustbin vehicles on the roads, because the cardboard or other waste is greatly compacted. More waste-collecting jobs would be created in the Private Sector. The waste-collection business is growing quickly and there will always be free collections. All the waste collected is for actual recycling. Collecting baled waste means much fewer vehicles on the road, less diesel fuel used and lower financial costs. At the moment, lots of waste collected by councils is still going to landfill. If the Councils purchase or lease their Baler Equipment from a business such as Strong Recycling Balers Ltd (Tel 0800 5677 384), it is supporting British Manufacturing. There are very few baler manufacturers in the UK. Most balers are imported from Ireland, Denmark, Germany and China.

ABOUT USING A BALER
If you have a brand new baler, from Strong Recycling Balers Ltd, (You can find them on Google), it will have the most modern features and will last you for many years. The expense of having your baler should normally be less than you are paying for your bins. In other words, you should pay less weekly for having a baler, than you pay for renting your bins and having them emptied. Now you can use your baler as a cardboard bin. Because of the compaction ratio, you can really store a lot more cardboard in your baler. You just open the baler door, insert the cardboard, close the door, press the start button and walk away. The best balers are fully automated and will complete the whole baling cycle for you.

When you have produced a bale, which will take a lot longer than you probably imagine, the bales can be left outside in all weather. If the bale is firmly compacted then the weather won’t normally be a problem. This is also a lot safer than loose cardboard in your bins. Tight bales of cardboard have no oxygen inside and are considered less of a fire hazard.

A Good Supplier of Baler Machinery will typically introduce you to a local collector in your area. The bales will then be taken away (usually free of charge). In some areas of the country, you may have a local Recycling Plant in close proximity, where you can take your bales and possibly receive small revenues yourself. TIP: Always ask your baler supplier if they can genuinely arrange this for you. In actual fact, most recycled waste material has a commercial value and each Council could be monopolizing this opportunity.

Because you are having your cardboard significantly compacted, this means you will have it taken away much less often. As an example, where you previously had two or three 1100 litre wheelie bins collected weekly, you may just have 6 to 10 small bales collected each month, free of charge. This means you are helping cut the amount of gas-guzzling dustbin lorries on the road. This also helps to lessen your carbon footprint even further.

The W40 Baler can be used for a variety of waste materials. It can be used for baling Cardboard, Paper, Plastic, Shrink-Wrap, Polypropylene, Plastic Bottles, Cans and many other items. It can also be used to compact bags of general waste before putting it into 1100 litre wheelie-bins. You will get about 8 times more general waste into your wheelie-bin or skip using the W40 baler.

WHERE CAN A BALER BE USED BY THE COUNCIL?
The simple answer is, any place you have lots of cardboard, paper, plastic shrink-wrap, cans and even general waste. Every school with a kitchen, should surely have a baler for its waste. Many food pubs in the UK are using Strong Recycling Balers, mainly for cardboard, but also for general waste and plastics too. Having one of these balers in the kitchen area, will normally isolate it from children. The machine can also be made safe, with an isolation switch to cut power when not in use and also a padlock can be fitted. There is a potential for thousands of these balers to be installed in schools and colleges throughout the UK. There is no lay out, as a simple 5 year lease agreement can be set-up, where the council will own the baler after 5 years, for £12 per week. The baler is also perfect for office buildings where there is lots of shredded paper occurring. Thousands of council buildings could be paying independent shredding companies to take away their shredded paper. This is a very costly way to get rid of paper waste from government buildings. Each government building could shred their waste and then bale it themselves. The bales would be removed free of charge. For £12 per week there is a possibility to save fortunes. There are so many applications for a baler in the council. Whatever department you are in, have a think about whether it would be less-expensive to collect compacted waste less often, than paying fortunes for your bins.

If you want to have the best advice for your particular needs then speak to Strong Recycling Balers on Free-phone 0800 5677 384.They will provide you with all the appropriate information and answer all your questions. The recommendation they give, is in your best interest, completely free and without obligation. They will visit your Site if required, give a Free Survey and then advise on the correct equipment for you. If you want a baler, they will make the whole process very effortless.

Article Source: http://depositarticles.com/

John Webster has several years experience in the waste recycling industry. He is very pro-recycling and helps support the best recycling solutions for small to medium and large size organizations. You can e-mail him through his website <www.strongrecyclingbalers.co.uk>

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