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Scottish Fish Boxes
Collected for Recycling
Fish processors in Scotland are getting help to recycle their EPS fish boxes.
Twice a week, Enviro, the EPS recyclers based in Grimsby travel up to Scotland with a 17-tonne truck to collect compacted fish boxes from food processors in Aberdeen, Inverness, Fraserburgh and Annan.
Uniq Prepared Foods is a major supplier to all of the country’s leading food retailers, its Scottish operations at Annan and Finnarts Bays are the largest processors of Scottish salmon in the UK. A great many EPS boxes pass through its doors.
Bill Strawbridge, Services Manager, explains: “We have around 4.5 tonnes of compacted fish boxes each week, they are exclusively whole salmon boxes.
“We need a reliable recycling service, that does what it says it is going to do. Enviro has done just that and we are pleased to be recycling rather than landfilling the waste.”
Enviro plans to set up a recycling plant in central Scotland and is currently searching for an appropriate site. Steve Rowlands, MD, Enviro explains: “Transporting 20 or 30 tonnes of compacted EPS from Scotland to Grimsby is expensive and it means that collecting the material is only just economically viable.
“A more effective and sustainable way would be to recycle the compacted material into EPS bead in Scotland and then transport it. I am currently looking into machinery and sites and I hope to get this set up later on in 2005,” concludes Rowlands.
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