Recycling fish boxes at Grimsby docks
Enviro, an award-winning new business, started the Grimsby recycling scheme in December 2003 and has already won the confidence of all the major fish processors and importers in the town. Steve Rowlands, Managing Director, Enviro says: “We do a daily collection service for 20 fish companies based at Grimsby Docks. We also have compacted fish boxes brought to us from firms in Hull, Caistor and Nottingham.” Fish arrives at Grimsby Docks twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year and it can create problems if empty fish boxes are not quickly moved away. The key to Enviro’s successful enterprise is providing a reliable and helpful service to its customers — who are processing the fish. Young’s Bluecrest, the largest fish producer in the UK, processes at least 25,000 fish boxes a week at Grimsby. As soon as the boxes are emptied, it needs them removed from the factory for reprocessing. George Bowering, Engineering Manager, Youngs Bluecrest comments: “We supply fresh fish to supermarkets on demand, this makes our production unpredictable with an incredibly fast turnaround. “Since Enviro started its operation on the Docks, it has been a lot easier to prevent waste building up — which is good for our business and for the Docks. We have a solid working relationship with Enviro who genuinely do their best to provide us with a good service.” Enviro won the North East Lincolnshire Enterprise Award for New Business 2004. Steve Rowlands comments: “It has been hard work for the past six months and we are proud of our achievements so far. However, this is just the start, we plan to expand and develop the business and build on our success.” The first step in this expansion is a move to larger, new premises nearer the Docks in Grimsby to increase the tonnage of material that can be processed and to cut transport costs. And Steve Rowlands has more plans: “Instead of sending the fish boxes to China to be reprocessed, I would like to do the reprocessing here in Grimsby. That would mean Enviro investing in the machinery to extrude the fish boxes and then making the material into plastic wood that can be used for fencing and posts. In the long-term that is where we would like the business to be going.” |
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An enterprising outfit, Enviro, based near Grimsby Docks, is collecting around 25 tonnes of used EPS fish boxes each week, from the Grimsby Fish Market — one of the most important fish markets in Europe. The fish boxes are compacted and sent to China where they are recycled into disposable cameras, video cases and coat hangers.
