Local companies secure major recycling sack contract

Following the disappointing announcement that a £1.4 billion contract to build new train carriages will not be handled by Bombardier in Derby, another Derbyshire based business has succeeded in bringing some good news and additional revenue to the local economy.

bpi.recycled products - a leading manufacturer of refuse and recycling sacks which operates from sites across the UK including a factory on the Heanor Gate Industrial Estate in Heanor - has secured a contract that will see it working with Biffa Leicester (the partnership company which deals with the collection, treatment and disposal of the City of Leicester’s domestic waste).

bpi.recycled products picked up the new customer after issues outside of Biffa’s control meant they had a requirement for a large number of recycling sacks – and in an incredibly short period of time.

In order to fulfil this need, bpi.recycled products pulled out all the stops, producing and delivering 3 million, printed, co-mingled recycling sacks in just four days - with all of the sacks being produced at the company’s Heanor site.

It was assisted in its efforts by Promopack - also based on the Heanor Gate Industrial Estate - which specialises in design and reprographics for the flexographic printing industry

Lorcan Mekitarian, Sales Director at bpi.recycled products said: “When we were approached by Biffa Leicester, the odds were very much against us. Issues outside of Biffa’s control meant they had a particularly challenging requirement both in terms of volumes needed and the timescales available. As a business with a ‘can do’ approach, bpi.recycled products was only too willing to step into the breach and do whatever we could to help out.”

The three million orange tinted sacks have been supplied on 60,000 rolls and will be used for collecting co-mingled recyclable material such as paper, plastic, cardboard, cans and glass. They are also made from 100% recycled UK polythene waste which bpi.recycled products recycles at its own network of Environment Agency approved UK facilities.

It adopts this approach in order to ensure products with a lower carbon footprint compared to most other 100% recycled refuse and recycling sacks which are typically made in the Far East – the waste being shipped there and recycled before the finished items are shipped back again.

Summing up, Lorcan Mekitarian adds: “Winning the Biffa Leicester business is great news not just for bpi.recycled products, but also for the wider economy.”