Building of the new Newport WEEE plant which is set to become one of the biggest recycling sites on the planet has started.
Sims Group, a metal recycling giant, has chosen Dudley, a local contractor to construct the new waste electrical and electrical equipment recycling plant. The recycling plant will be located on a site measuring twelve acres in the North Quay area of Newport. The Sims Group is not new to Newport and already runs a refrigerator recycling plant there.
Myles Pilkington, a spokesperson for the Sims Group disclosed that the recycling giant is putting in eleven million dollars to the project. The recycling plant is expected to be ready for business within a period ranging between 6 to 9 months. When it becomes fully operational it will handling up to a hundred thousand tonnes of electrical and electronic waste.
The Sims Group spokesperson also pointed out that the firm will concentrate its operations on the disassembling of cathode ray tubes in television sets and computer screens.
Waste matter that may contain dangerous materials will be disassembled by hand before being allowed into the recycling plant’s processing line. From the processing line items will then be refurbished where they will be prepared for reuse.
Financing for the recycling plant has come from the Welsh Assembly Government’s Regional Selective Assistance Programme. The new plant will be two hundred metres away from the fridge recycling plant that Sims already operates in Newport. The fridge recycling plant started operations in 2004. When the total area the two plants will be occupying is combined it will come to a total of thirty six acres.
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