Crosshands and Skewen metal sites in TV recycling series
Sims Metal Management in South Wales welcomed film production company, Tinopolis, to its sites in Crosshands and Skewen to make a film about metals recycling.
The film is being made for the world’s only Welsh language television channel, S4C, as part of a mini- series on recycling which is running on its popular WEDI 3 programme.
Sims’ staff explained to the film crew how End of Life Vehicles are de-polluted at Crosshands in readiness for sending to Sims’ Newport recycling facility for shredding. The visitors were then taken to Skewen berth facility in Neath, where they were able to film Sims’ staff loading a ship with scrap metal bound for Spain.
Native Welsh speaker and Crosshands’ Office Manager, Meirion James, gave the interviews and said: “We were pleased to be part of a programme that explains to the wider public in South Wales what happens to their scrap metal when they take it to their local metals recycling facility.
“People may be interested to learn that scrap metal loaded onto our ships at Skewen and our other dock facility in Newport, is placed into smelters when it reaches its destination. It is then typically made into new bars and sections of steel for re-use in the construction and refabrication industries. Re-using steel in this way is hugely beneficial to the environment, as it saves the carbon emissions which would need to be generated if virgin steel were used.”
The film is scheduled to be broadcast sometime over the next two weeks.
See below for pictures taken during the filming.
