Month: August 2024

What a fantastic experience we’ve had baling recyclables at Boomtown Fair this year!
Working alongside the brilliant Ryan’s Cleaning, we were busy throughout the festival separating out card, cans, plastic and glass to be crushed and baled ready for recycling. Using the Recovery Line for all the waste, the team were able to check and separate all the materials as they went along, ensuing that our bales were 100% clean before being sent to the recycling facility. This ensures we’re maximising potential recycling rates.

It was great to see lots of cans coming through from Drip Water – canned water is a huge improvement on bottled: cans are infinitely, and quickly, recyclable. Chances are, by the time you’re reading this, the metal we processed at Boomtown Fair has already been recycled, reformed into new cans and is already back on the shelves, or even in your hand already…

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Those 8 bales hold 230,000 drinks cans.
We had several bales of gold Drip drinks cans – canned water instead of bottled!
Cardboard bales neatly, safely stacked in the skip ready for removal.

Latitude 2024 was a great experience for our team – though taking place in Henham Park in Suffolk, it’s almost as far from West Wales as we could get!

We were able to set up a full materials recovery centre, with conveyor-fed recovery line where the team picked out aluminium cans, card, paper, and plastics before feeding them into the RPU’s compacting machines to create dense bales of recyclables. The machinery was all powered by GeoPura’s zero-emission Hydrogen Power Units throughout – a great step to further reducing the carbon footprint of the festival!

The team from Every Can Counts were on site throughout the festival, working hard to encourage more people to separate out their drinks cans from other waste.

Our RPU spent several weeks at Hyde Park this summer, compacting and baling the festival waste before it left site, making it easier, cleaner and safer to store and much more efficient to transport – both financially and in terms of fuel usage.

We worked closely with the team at Ryan’s Waste to ensure we maximised the flow of clean materials coming through, to ensure we were taking as much out for recycling as possible.

It was a great start to the summer for us, processing lots of cardboard, glass, and drinks cans from festival goers!