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Beatson Clark

Rotherham Residents Can Help Local Company Recycle

Beatson Clark, which has manufactured glass in Rotherham for over 260 years, has once again won the contract to manage the town’s recycling collections.

The company’s recycling plant on Greasborough Road, which employs nine people, receives 6,240 tonnes of metal, textiles and glass from the council every year, of which 4,734 tonnes are glass.

The glass is recycled and used to make new bottles and jars at the Rotherham factory, while the textiles are sent to Bag It Up who support the Great Yorkshire Air Ambulance charity and metals are recycled at Morris & Co and Alutrade.

Colin Saysell, Logistics Manager at Beatson Clark, commented: “We’re working with the council to encourage people to recycle more, but we also need them to understand that what goes into the boxes is just as important.

“Residents can help us by only putting glass bottles and jars, metal cans and lids, and textiles and footwear in the blue box. They should not put Pyrex or pottery in as this won’t melt in our furnaces and can even cause damage and rejected bottles, wasting both glass and energy.”

Rotherham residents currently recycle almost 40% of their waste (22,638 tonnes per year), but the councillor responsible for recycling says the borough could do even better.

“Recycling should be at the centre of everyday life and I would encourage all our residents to utilise their blue box to recycle glass, cans and textiles – not Pyrex or pottery – and their blue bag for newspapers, paper and cardboard,” said Councillor Mahroof Hussain, Member for Environment at Rotherham Borough Council.

“Recycling our waste not only benefits and improves the environment of Rotherham but also helps boost the town’s economy.”

To order a new blue box or blue bag call 01709 336003 or order online on at www.rotherham.gov.uk/bins.

Notes to editors:

• Beatson Clark specialises in providing glass packaging solutions for niche brands in the food, drink and pharmaceutical markets worldwide. The key to its success has been flexibility, innovation and the high quality of its containers.

• Beatson Clark’s customers are at the core of its business and the company is proud of the long-standing partnerships it has developed thanks to the outstanding level of service it offers.

• Beatson Clark has a turnover of £44 million and a production capacity of approximately 496 million units or 88,000 tonnes.

• It has ISO 9001:2000, BRC/IOP Food Packaging Hygiene Standard and OHSAS 18001:1999 Occupational Health & Safety Standard and its manufacturing capability has an emphasis on flexibility to facilitate short tailored production runs. It has a UK distribution centre located in Rotherham.

• Residents in Rotherham recycle 22,638 tonnes of household waste per year. This figure includes blue box and blue bag material, green bin collection (garden waste) and material recycled at the four household waste recycling centres and over 41 recycling points across the borough.

For media information contact:
Jez Ashberry
Shooting Star PR
01522 528540
07780 735071
jez@weareshootingstar.co.uk
@jezashberry
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