Recycling Equipment for Manufacturing Businesses

All sizes and types of manufacturing businesses in the UK are using waste management equipment supplied by QCR to help them reduce the costs of their trade waste disposal. The UK manufacturing industry produces a number of different waste streams that each business is legally responsible for. Each manufacturing business in the UK must ensure that they:

  • Keep their business waste to a minimum by doing everything you can to prevent, reuse, recycle and recover waste materials
  • Store any waste safely and securely
  • Have your waste collected by a registered Waste Carrier

Our Pneumatic Paint Can Crushing Equipment is popular with businesses who want to crush all types of metal cans, tins, paint drums and pails to reduce the volume of these waste materials. Our General Waste Compactors can help to reduce the volume of materials that are non-recyclable (or contaminated recyclable materials) which can significantly reduce the amount of storage space taken up by wheelie bins and emptying costs.If your manufacturing business creates hazardous waste by-products, we also have a solution which can help save money on disposal costs.

If your manufacturing business already has a supply of compressed air on site a Pneumatic Cardboard Baler or a Pneumatic Plastic Baler is a great option to reduce your disposal costs. If your business wants to explore reusing waste materials then consider a Cardboard Shredder to turn your waste cardboard into packing materials. Excess cardboard can be dealt with efficiently with a cardboard baler that can also dramatically reduce waste and costs.

Due to understandable commercial sensitivity, we don't like to name our customers on our website, but please do get in touch and we’ll send you some examples of how we've helped manufacturing businesses in the UK to save money on their waste. Here is a brief overview of one:

Global chemical company saving £5,760 per year on their waste by using a Plastic Baler from QCR

This global chemical company employs hundred of people worldwide with manufacturing sites in Europe, Middle East, South Africa, Canada and India. They contacted QCR do a free no-obligation waste survey at their site in the East Midlands. The main factory produced lots of waste plastics which required 95 x 1100l bins rented at £5.00 each per week to dispose of.  

Following a free site survey, our QCR Waste Expert for the East Midlands region proposed a Plastic Baling Machine that would save them time, reduce their bin quantities and include rebates for baled materials.They purchased 40 x bag stands for collecting plastic at the source before baling into a new QCR 509 Plastic Baler. This has created an opportunity for all plastics to be baled and collected with revenue. The plastic bag stand system also collects jazz mixed plastics, milk bottles and banding all of which are capable of creating more revenue. The factory is now using 50% less 1100l bins and day to day operations run much smoother in regards to waste.

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