Tetley makes savings

Tata Global Beverage's Eaglescliffe tea factory, home to the Tetley brand, has reduced waste removal transport costs from one of its production halls by 20% by using a waste compactor.

Since Greenbank installed the machine, skip collections have been cut from once a week to once or twice a month, reducing transport costs and carbon footprint.

Manufacturing engineer, Mike Peacock, says: "Our housekeeping has improved significantly because the mobile compactor is enclosed, whereas a standard waste skip is totally open.

Waste materials, especially tea dust and light cardboard packaging used to get blown out of the skip creating housekeeping issues." Greenbank installed a mobile compactor, model PCW20, to help the company dispose of a mixture of waste tea bags, cardboard cartons, corrugated cardboard and plastic film.