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Leafield Environmental has the manufacturing facility to reprocess obsolete plastic items such as disused bins into new 100% recycled products, saving a significant amount of business waste from being sent to landfill.
How does Closed Loop Recycling work?
Collection
Leafield works with each client to organise the collection and delivery of the waste material to their factory in Corsham, Wiltshire.
Processing
The raw material – ideally Medium Density Polyethylene (MDPE) – from the disused bins is dismantled and shredded into fragments before being separated by colour.
Manufacturing
The colour segregated plastic chips are then rotationally moulded into new, 100% recycled Leafield bins.
What are the benefits?
Cost Savings
Closed loop recycling helps businesses reduce disposal costs associated with the administration and transportation of plastic waste to landfill. CSER obligations are also met by selecting this viable, auditable recycling route.
Positive environmental impact
- Reduces the need for virgin materials
- Places the circular economy at the forefront of your organisation’s waste management processes
- Cuts the amount of waste that goes to landfill
- Manufacturing recycled materials uses less energy which equates to lower carbon emissions
What our clients say about Leafield’s Closed Loop Recycling Scheme
Leafield reclaimed 900 disused plastic bins from Bangor University and reprocessed them into new products.
Gwen Holland, Waste Manager and Circular Economy Coordinator at Bangor University reflects on the Closed Loop initiative:
“In order to truly contribute to a circular economy, we believe that all our decisions should be circular – from purchases, to processes, to disposal. We would like to thank the Leafield team for their continued support.”
Leafield’s very own Managing Director, Philip Maddox, and other members of our Business Development
team get involved in the collection of disused bins to reprocess them into new stock.
