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11. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS

OF PARTNERING WITH A SINGLE

WASTE PROVIDER?

Answer: Some waste service can prove tricky when trying to keep
providers only offer collections, or track of where your waste ends up
may only offer to process single (see Chapter 13 to find out more
waste streams. This means having about your legal responsibilities).
to manage multiple suppliers, which

Baled plastics Bales broken up Plastic screening Plastic sorting Stream separation Product preparation Quality control Dispatch of final products
The baled plastics The bales are A trammel and ballistic We then do a metal And finally a type and Plastics are granulated, We quality test clear plastics The end product then heads o
arrive at our facilities. then separated. separation help separation using colour separation. then separated. We clean by sampling flakes, and mixed to be manufactured (an example
remove materials magnets. and dry both types and colour plastics by sampling of this is our uBins which you can
that are not bottles. they go through a separate the pellets produced. see in the circular economy section).
packing service.

Trommel Ballistic Metals removed Optical
screening separation using magnets sorting