020 7001 600023rd September 2008:
Bywaters and British Gypsum sign new 5-year deal.
British Gypsum and Bywaters have signed a revised 5-year plasterboard recycling service contract.
Bywaters invested in a semi-automated plasterboard recycling facility in Bow, east London. This development forms part of a major £30million relocation project to a 9.2 acre site following Bywaters relocation as part of the Olympic land acquisition. The building at Lea Riverside covers more than 187,000 square feet and is able to operate in all weather conditions, with materials remaining dry as well as secure. British Gypsum, have been working in partnership with Bywaters for over three years and will use the new site to help deliver their recycling offer to the Olympic project.
Bywaters is one of British Gypsums key strategic recycling partners. Providing a collection, sorting and delivery service for off-cuts of plasterboard from new build construction projects for customers of British Gypsum's Plasterboard Recycling Service (PRS). Feeding recycled gypsum into the manufacture of new plasterboard represents an environmentally sound closed-loop recycling solution.
The contract Bywaters is servicing covers London and the South East and at any given time Bywaters may be providing collection services to over 100 sites.
Mark Snowden the PRS Manager from British Gypsum says "Bywaters is an important part of our supply chain, giving us the ability to offer our customers effective plasterboard waste management solutions. We work together by adopting a collaborative approach based on an open and honest relationship, this in turn promotes innovation and opportunities in developing our plasterboard recycling service to meet our customers demands.
Working with Bywaters means that we can offer a more effective customer service, and we now recycle over 75% of all plasterboard waste recycled into new board in the UK."
From July 2005 the European Union Landfill Directive reclassified high sulphate wastes as non-hazardous non-inert wastes. When the sulphate concentration of plasterboard waste is above a certain level it can only be landfilled in separately engineered cells, in non-hazardous landfill sites. Recycling it back into the manufacturing process not only diverts waste from landfill, it helps to preserve valuable virgin raw material.
