Over the last month there has been a significant tightening of grades in the paper recycling and plastic recycling market place.

Over the last decade China has been the recipient of the majority of plastics and paper for recycling. During this time China has built state of art facilities to receive and reprocess our waste paper and plastic. In the last couple of months as you know there has been a change of government. One of the new policies rapidly adopted after the election has been to review the grades that are acceptable into China. The Chinese authorities are now only accepting finished grades, such as high grade cardboard, high grade paper, they will not accept any mixed grades or grades that require a sort before pulping or compounding.

Whilst this change will require that cardboard and paper be checked against specification before loading, the effect on the plastic industry is more profound. As the majority of plastics are exported baled and with a minor element of dirt or mixed polymers, such as 98:2 or Jazz LDPE / LLDPE films. The change of policy means that these grades are no longer acceptable at all and will be rejected upon custom inspection. We are now seeing that the market for recycled plastics has almost stopped.

We will have to wait and see how is there is any dilution of the new mandate, or whether the recycling capacity migrates to other pacific rim countries such as the Philipines or Indonesia, though this might not be visible in the next six months.

In the meanwhile, we recommend that you ensure that your grades of recycling are kept clean and to specification. To assist in the sorting and grading of your recycling we have updated our waste specifications and posted them onto the downloads pages of our website, please use these to present your recycling in the best possible manner to ensure that they can be traded and revenues, though reduced remain positive.

To show you that we are not scaremongering, we have attached an extract of a letter that we have received from the largest paper company in China to reinforce the challenges ahead.

If you have any immediate questions please let me know and be assured we through our UK outlets and Toddplas plastics washing facility we will continue to offer the best service and rebates.

Regards – Richard

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We have an opening for an accounts assistant job at out Thirsk office. Thirsk jobs. The detail are posted on the recruitment section of our website. This advert will also run in the darlington & stockton jobs section and I think on fish-4-jobs.

PLease click on the above link to take you directly to the recruitment section on out website. Thirsk Jobs, accounts assistant job, admin jobs.

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Nestle Waters ~ Buxton has officially opened its new bottling and warehousing plant in Buxton, Derbyshire.

The site has been developed as a low energy, low waste site.

The site was opened by Lord de Mauley, the Environment Minister on 14th March 2013.

The factory has been independently audited and certified zero waste to landfill.

Todd Waste Management are justifiably proud to be the effective zero to landfill waste management provider to this site.

The majority of waste from this site is segregated for recycling, with the few residues after treatment going for waste to energy use.

Todd Waste Management is the right choice for your recycling.  Not only do we provide recycling Thirsk, recycling Northallerton, recycling York, recycling Harrogate, recycling Easingwold, and recycling Malton, we provide recycling services further afield.

Todd Waste Management – Waste No More!

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It was great to see Simon Hall, our Sales Manager, starring in our first Todd Video.

Simon’s normal day revolves around helping new and existing customers to find ways to improve their waste management process and reduce their costs.

Currently Simon is working on recycling with many customers across our area, especially recycling Bedale, recyscling Northallerton, recycling Thirsk, recycling York, recycling Harrogate recycling Boroughbridge and recycling Malton.

We can collect material in bins, bales or skips – just ask for more information.

(By the way, you can see simon’s debut as a video star on our website – go to the site services page to watch)

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WIth all the skills at Todd Waste Management, we are certain we can find a great way to manage your waste and help you recycle more of your waste.

Not only can we help you recycle cardboard, paper and many plastics, we can also recycle dirty plastics at our new wash facility.

We also can collect your recycling as a baled or loose item.

Don’t forget to ask Todd Waste Management about recycling Bedale, recycling Boroughbridge, recycling Catterick, recycling Easingwold, recycling Thirsk, recycling Northalleron, recycling York, recycling Malton, recycling Pickering and recycling Harrogate.

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Over the last couple of years we have seen an increase in demand for biomass timber. In these instances commercial and domestic users have installed biomass boilers for heating and water requirements. We produce a grade of biomass timber suitable for use in biomass boilers, and his is prices significantly cheaper than biomass pellets and timber pellets. Any enquiries for samples please click online to contact us.

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This year Easter falls early and if you are tempted out into the garden we have some great offers on the supply of topsoil and compost for all of your ambitions horticultural and landscaping projects. topsoil york, topsoil Eastingwold, topsoil Northallerton. All of our compost is produced to PAS100 equivalent standard at our Sandhutton Airfield and Knapton Quarry permitted composting pads. Whilst we traditionally supply to the trade, we are able to deliver in quantities from 10 tonnes upward. If you want any samples of topsoil or compost give us a call.

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Our passion is 0% to landfill, waste no more and 100% recycling. Whilst many other waste companies talk about it, we actually do it. Through SRf production and TSf export we have done what many others are only talking about.

To try and get the message across in a simple format we have put together the following What Happens to your waste poster. Let us know your thoughts.

total recycling

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As one of only a handful of companies with a direct export license TFS to export SRF (solid recovered fuel) from the UK to mainland Europe, we are always interested in speaking to you about the opportunities to add additional tonnages into our channel. The application process for a notification is complicated and is often construed as a significant barrier. Having our export notification renewed for the second year is a major endorsement that we are complying with the requirements of the Environment Agency, EVOA and Agentschapnl. Our 0% to landfill waste recycling solutions are aided by having the endorsement to export waste for recovery. If you would like any additional information about adding your wastes into this channel, drop us a line.

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Closed loop recycling from green waste to certified compost and soils

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