Celebrated Waste Management Company of the Month
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n this issue of Sustainability Today, we are delighted to welcome CRJ Services Ltd as our Celebrated Waste Management Company of the Month.
The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has introduced a new UK waste reduction policy, purposefully designed to reduce waste by 2030. European countries like Germany and Switzerland currently outperform the UK with streamlined waste management practices and this policy will allow the UK to play catch-up. In the race towards the UK Government’s 2050 net zero targets, this new policy will shift focus towards phasing out landfill usage and incinerators for all recyclable waste and place more onus on manufacturers, importers and retailers to cover the costs of recycling. This further incentivises companies to reduce waste much earlier in the design stage, through compostable packaging for example, and fully brings the UK into the green economy. CRJ Services is a comprehensive waste, recycling and forestry equipment provider and is one of the largest operating throughout the UK and Ireland, delivering quality machinery and reliable service to more than 300 customers. Established in 1999, the company is looking forward to spending 2024 celebrating its 25th anniversary, with the opening of a new engineering workshop Facility.
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The machinery solutions provider has seen rapid growth over the last three years as waste and recycling management becomes a key priority for many industries. The Knutsford site in Cheshire is set to expand with a new, second engineering workshop facility nearby to manage the growing demand for the hire and sale of mobile and static processing machines. Working across the waste management, forestry and quarrying sectors, CRJ operates a hire fleet of over 130 mobile processing machines, designed for shredding, screening, washing and sorting a wide range of waste streams. These include: shredders, trommels, flat deck screeners, density separators, eddy current separators, water baths, and picking stations. The Cheshire site holds an expansive stock of spare parts, in excess of £2.0M for all hire and purchased equipment. The company places great emphasis on customer service and has field engineers on standby for a rapid-tiered response to machinery malfunction, with on-site visits planned within same day or maximum within 24 hours. “Many of our competitors are also yellow plant machinery suppliers but the difference is that we specialise in our waste management machinery and as an added bonus, we have an expansive hire fleet capacity. We are proud of our heritage in the waste and recycling industry and intend to remain specialists in the sector. We will never just hire or sell a piece of yellow plant or an attachment, that’s not what we are do, we are specialists.”
“We have seen a shift towards hire preferences in the industry with waste companies working on short to long– term contracts and needing flexible hire options to suit. We are happy to cater for hire options or for companies with machine purchasing budgets.” “The other trend we have observed is companies moving towards static machinery, which is powered by electricity, compared to diesel mobile machinery. Ever mindful of reducing carbon emissions, we can also provide a hybrid shredder powered by electric motors, rather than a diesel engine.” “Unlike other companies, we don’t just supply machinery and walk away. We are invested in moving the industry towards more sustainable best practice. We have analysed seven years of waste collection data across organic, food and residual waste and dry recycling. Shockingly, we found that from across 10 of the biggest local councils (by population), six had worryingly recorded a reduction in dry recycling since 2020 and more disturbingly, seven had seen an increase in waste to landfill/incineration.” “Along with the new targeted Defra waste reduction policy, there still needs to be a more cohesive, standardised push towards recycling from central government.”
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