This has to be the waste management mantra to all skip companies looking to reduce their future landfill tax bill.
As landfill tax and gate fees increase, skip companies’ waste disposal methods need to be smarter and further opportunities to recycle identified.
Fairfield Materials Management believes that Greater Manchester-based skip companies should be sorting and separating incoming green or garden waste material as a means of saving on landfill charges, and redirecting it to Fairfield’s site in East Manchester.
Landfill tax on biodegradable waste was increased at the beginning of April 2008 by a further £8.00, to £32.00 per tonne. This price doesn’t include the gate fee.
Fairfield offers a ‘throw-away’ gate fee of £25.00/tonne for green waste; a price that has encouraged many landscapers and skip hire companies through their gates.
With zero waste ambitions for the New Smithfield wholesale market site on which it is based, Fairfield has contributed to a phenomenal increase in recycling rates on the market from 8% to 60% in 3 years.
Fairfield is a social enterprise that was set up in 2003 in order to divert thousands of tonnes of green and vegetable waste away from landfill and eradicate unnecessary transportation. Its in-situ composting facility on the New Smithfield wholesale market processes fruit & veg waste from the traders and makes it into a BSI PAS100 compost.
The result?
A: many happy skip hire firms that are enjoying lower disposal costs.
B: a dark brown, nutrient-rich compost, in which waste really has been turned into goodness.
As Emma Smith, Projects Manager says, “Companies trying to dispose of their green waste material like to come to us because we provide a very low cost service. We also think they like our genuine environmental intentions”.
Fairfield provides a 6 day drop-off service at its New Smithfield market site in East Manchester. Large green waste customers are billed at the end of the month.
Fairfield's green waste service will help customers to be more sustainable, to help save the earth, and to save the pounds in their pocket.
