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Veka Recycling has opened a Lancashire hub to consolidate material collected throughout the north of England and Scotland. The company is also introducing a pilot IGU collection scheme.

The hub is in Burnley. Old PVC-U windows, as well as virgin offcuts from frame fabricators, will be collected and sorted before being moved on in bulk by Veka Recycling’s fleet of vehicles to its Wellingborough, Northampton processing plant.

The hub will also facilitate the collection and drop-off of material using smaller vehicles in the Burnley and surrounding areas, providing a convenient and inexpensive way of disposing of old frames for local installers.

Glass too

In a further initiative designed to improve the ease by which installers may present old frames for recycling, Veka Recycling will also be introducing a pilot scheme to collect old IGUs with the frames, a move that is expected to significantly boost the number of frames returned for processing.

The cullet will then be returned to a glass manufacturing partner to be made into new flat glass, which uses around 30% of recycled material in its manufacture. The scheme will be customised to customers’ needs, thus further simplifying the process of returning material for recycling.

Commenting on the initiatives, the managing director of Veka Recycling Ltd Stuart Stockley said: “Veka Recycling processes everything collected in the UK at its Midlands processing plant, the most advanced in Europe. In itself this is more efficient than many other recyclers because it reduces the miles driven to return the old frames to the point of recycling. Plus, the complex process of turning the old frames into new polymer is completed within the same facility. Often, the material is processed in a number of stages, at different plants. We do everything in house.

Picture: Veka Recycling has opened a northern hub for window frames to be dropped at and introduced a glass collection pilot scheme.

www.veka-recycling.co.uk

Article written by Cathryn Ellis
18th October 2023

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