Robust goes from strength to strength
“Currently, Robust is processing between 100 and 150 tonnes of compacted EPS a month,” says Dr Keith Parry, Chief Executive, Wales Environment Trust. “Clearly, we’d like to increase that, so we are always interested in talking to businesses that generate waste EPS to see if we can set up a long-term, fixed price contract to buy their EPS.” The Wales Environment Trust has been a crucial partner to Robust, Stuart Bush, managing director of Robust, explains:“ The Trust has been an invaluable support to us, not only has it assisted us with procurement, but it also helped us to get accredited as a re-processor and it assisted in the setting up of a long-term deal to issue Packaging Recovery Notes generated through Compliance Wales. “Anybody who sends their compacted EPS to this plant can be sure that as an Environment Agency approved and accredited re-processor of expanded polystyrene, all the material is recycled and used to manufacture ‘plastic wood’ products or to go back into new packaging.” |
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The Wales Environment Trust’s accredited partner, Robust Ltd has moved its EPS recycling plant to Ebbw Vale where it has the capacity to re-process 350 tonnes of compacted EPS a month. And, Robust has recently started extruding the re-processed bead and now manufactures plastic wood profile that can be used in the construction industry.
