GREEN IS THE COLOUR

A new initiative has been launched at The Ryemarket Shopping Centre in Stourbridge in the west Midlands to re-enforce its commitment to recyling and waste management.

The centre has reached agreement with Lawrence Recycling and Waste Management and is encouraging its shopkeepers to recycle even more materials to reduce the use the need for landfill sites.

All the shops in the The Ryemarket will be issued with green bags for recycling paper, newspapers and magazines, hard plastic, plastic film, cardboard, cartons, cans and plastic bottles and they will all receive red bags for food waste. The scheme will get under way on Monday (July 19).

Lawrence Recycling and Waste Management in Kidderminster, which is a licensed waste carrier firm with a transfer centre, has many long-standing private and public sector clients including Wyre Forest Council, Worcester City Council, Worcester County Hall, Severn West and Dudley Council. The firm extended its services into the commercial market last year.

Kelley Gardener, of the The Ryemarket,'s management team, said: “We have been investigating possibilities of extending our recycling capabilities for some time and with the help and cooperation of our tenants are delighted to be working with and supporting another local company in a bid to reduce the number of visits to landfill sites.

“We will receive a report from Lawrence every month on how much waste from The Ryemarket is being recycled and we will be monitoring those statistics carefully over the coming months and keeping our tenants informed of progress.”

Lawrence now has a wide range of skip and collection vehicles which it to achieve high standards in the collection, segregation and diversion of waste to landfill.

The company recently joined 250 other pioneering companies across the construction industry with the aim of reducing half of all construction waste to landfill.

The company’s processing procedures allows the segregation of a wide variety of products from soft and hard plastics, cardboard, paper, metals, wood, glass, aggregates and soils. Materials are mostly sorted by hand, dramatically reducing the volume of waste going to landfill.