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We are a UK company trading since 1957. As part recycled through our other facilities, to produce
of the FTSE 250 Pennon Group Plc, with over 330 usable materials as well as generating energy. A
UK sites including collection units, recycling and percentage of the energy product is taken to power
processing sites, as well as a closely managed the ERF itself, while the rest is used in the form
network of specialist partners to call on, Viridor of heat or turned into electricity and fed into the
are a safe pair of hands for consistant and reliable National Grid.
service through a single supplier.
To find out more about how Viridor sees different
Always investing in the future, as well as our many types of waste from collection through to becoming
recycling facilities, we are also putting £1 billion into new products, visit our interactive online tool at
our Energy Recovery Facilities (ERF). These clean, www.discoverviridor.co.uk
high-tech facilities treat any waste that cannot be

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