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Hartlepool metals recycling facility transformed within a year
Visitors to the former C Herring and Son metals recycling centre in Longhill Industrial Estate, Hartlepool, will have noticed a vast difference in the site since it was taken over by the world’s largest metals and electronics recycling company, Sims Metal Management, just over a year ago. Sims Metal Management acquired the facility – the company’s first in the North East - in February 2009 and wasted no time in transforming the site’s infrastructure in order to increase its range of recycling services available to businesses in Teeside.
New investment at Sims Metal Management Hartlepool includes a baler for crushing and transporting scrap metals
In addition to scrap metal recycling facilities - which include an Authorised Treatment Facility for depolluting scrap cars, metal cutting shears and a baler for compressing scrap metal - new investment has created a non ferrous metals centre for recycling copper, brass, aluminium, stainless steel and batteries, along with a transfer station for the handling of waste electrical and electronic equipment, (WEEE).
Site Manager James Bidwell, who oversaw the transformation of the site said: “Businesses and public sector organisations these days have a wide range of recycling needs, so the first thing we did when we took over the facility was to make sure we could handle as many waste streams as possible in order to offer total waste management services to local businesses.”
Sims Metal Management Hartlepool, recycles ferrous and non ferrous metals on site, whilst WEEE collected in the transfer hub is sent to sister company, Sims Recycling Solutions’ flagship WEEE recycling facility in Newport, Gwent.
Similarly, redundant computer and ICT equipment is sent to Sims Recycling Solutions’ specialist asset management and recovery facility for refurbishment or recycling. Equipment which is deemed suitable for refurbishment is first put through a data destruction process which uses state of the art technology to ensure all data is completely destroyed before the equipment is redeployed.
James concluded: “We are very pleased to have upgraded the site in such a short time and achieve our vision of a world class ‘one stop shop’ recycling hub for clients in the North East. We can now offer secure, efficient and environmentally friendly recycling for ferrous and non ferrous metals and WEEE along with an asset management and recovery service for redundant ICT and computer equipment.”