John Brooke and his wife Lindsay, of John Brooke Sawmills, decided to purchase a Bandit Beast Recycler from Global Recycling for their site in Nottinghamshire.
John ‘hates waste’ and for the last 25 years they have been utilising every scrap of wood and turning it into sawdust, chippings and occasionally logs. But you can never be entirely efficient and John and Lindsay felt that, despite Britain becoming an increasingly environmentally aware place, there was no facility for local people
to turn their waste products into something useful.
Their fifty-acre site is nearing completion and the ‘Beast’ is now hungry and roaring to get to work. It will be used to pull out any metal with a large magnet, which will then go for scrap. The machine will then chip up and digest all the wood or greenery, finishing with a product that can either go right back to the land again as compost or
off to fuel various power stations.
So what’s next in the evolution of John Brooke Sawmills? “To finally make some money” laughs Linda. “In the timber industry the margins are so small that it makes good sense for us to tackle the recycling and environmental side, making good use of waste – because there is a lot of it!”
For further information about the ‘Beast’ contact Global Recycling on 0870 770 8540 or visit their web site at: www.globalrecycling.eu
