Waste Receival, Separation and Sorting

After a delivery is registered at the weighbridge, all waste is delivered into the receival hall of the UR-3R Facility. The receival hall is a fully enclosed building and is maintained at negative air pressure to prevent the escape of fugitive odours.

The first stage of the UR-3R Process uses the ResourceSort technology (patent pending) for materials sorting and separation. This involves the waste deposited in the receival hall being loaded into a bag opener, and then separated by reference to the key characteristics of each major component of the waste stream, i.e. size, shape, magnetism, density, emissivity, colour, rigidity, etc. Global Renewables has undertaken extensive characterisation of various waste streams and used this information to tailor the design of the sorting process for more effective and efficient resource recovery. The products recovered during the ResourceSort separation process include:

• Cardboard
• Mixed paper
• Mixed plastic
• Plastic containers (mainly PET and HDPE)
• Glass containers
• Ferrous metals
• Non ferrous metals.