Materials Recovery Facility

Do you have dry recyclables? We want to process them!

Bywaters has immediate and growing capacity for municipal and industrial dry recyclable material in bulk or in smaller quantities, eg from collection vehicles. View a video of our MRF.

We also provide individual collection services throughout the London area and "bulk" dry recyclable collection services from a wide area of the UK.

Our plant:

Is large - 187,500 sq ft building on 9.2 acre site at Bow, E3 3JG, London
Fully under-cover for inputs, outputs and all storage
Materials received, by arrangement, 24 hours a day seven days a week
Licensed for 500,000 tonnes per annum and 365/24 operation
Immediate unloading - No waiting
Enormous receiving capacity. Up to 700 tonnes per day can be processed
Adjacent to A12 trunk road & located on tidal River Lea
Contract or on-demand capacity
Dry recyclables can be received WITH or WITHOUT glass - Glass removed automatically at the first stage
Recovery of glass, film plastic, cardboard, PET, HDPE, mixed plastic, paper, aluminium cans and ferrous cans
UK markets developed for a full range of materials. Export is the second choice
Plasterboard recovered at Bow in conjunction with British Gypsum
Tetrapak style containers recovered at Bow, in conjunction with all flexible beverage package manufacturers
As featured by CNN and many broadcasters
Audited by the Environment Agency in 2008 and 2009
ISO14001 accredited
Getting ever closer to Zero waste