A mountain of polystyrene has been
reduced to a few pallets of recyclable
material thanks to help from
Greenbank Waste Solutions.

Braintree-based RDC remarkets,
redeploys and recycles more than
1.5million items of ICT equipment
every year from its dedicated IT reuse
facility and faced an uphill struggle to
dispose of the protective expanded
polystyrene packaging used
extensively by manufacturers and
distributors of IT equipment.

However, since Greenbank
installed a Cobalt SC2000 compactor
12 months ago, the pile of polystyrene
has reduced fifty-fold. Matthew
Embley, RDC’s recycling services
manager, said to take the 462 noncompacted
bags of polystyrene to
landfill would have taken 36 lorries to
collect, costing over £8000. Now, the
resulting material, in easy-to-handle
polystyrene briquettes, fills just 16
pallets which not only fit onto one
lorry but can be sold for over £1000.