Waste King Cage helps maximise firm’s recycling opportunities

June 28, 2012 - PRLog -- When the Luton branch of Portable Offices - a leading UK supplier of temporary offices, portable buildings, mobile offices, modular buildings, storage containers and other portable units - found that not only had the price of skips risen but it was amassing waste products, such as fridges and electrical products, that couldn’t be put into a skip, it turned for advice and help to Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company.

Waste King’s answer was to build a special ‘waste cage’ for Portable Offices’ Luton depot.

Portable Offices’ staff can now put any waste products – from plasterboard and electrical goods to ‘mixed waste’ – into the cage. Once in the cage, these waste products can be easily segregated so that they can be more easily recycled – leaving only a small percentage of the waste to go to landfill.

Then, when the cage is full, Waste King’s operatives come along and remove the waste which, since it is segregated, is easily and speedily removed.

Waste King’s managing director, Glenn Currie, commented: “So far, we’ve managed to recycle well over 90 per cent of the waste we’ve collected from Portable Offices in this way. This not only helps boost Portable Offices’ ‘green’ credentials but also helps to prevent unnecessary damage to our environment.

“Moreover, with the price of skips rising – especially if the skip company finds ‘prohibited’ things such as plasterboard in the skip - and, with the recent increases in landfill taxes, the ‘cage’ approach to removing waste is a highly cost-effective option for Portable Offices.”

He added: “It’s encouraging to see a company, such as Portable Offices, being ‘rewarded’ - in cost terms - for taking a responsible attitude towards disposing of its waste products. It would be good to see more firms taking such a responsible and environmentally considerate approach.”

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About Waste King Ltd

A specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King serves the domestic and commercial markets. It focuses not only on providing a friendly, efficient, cost-effective service but also one which is environmentally friendly. In particular, Waste King’s uniformed, Environment Agency-licensed staff take time to ensure that the maximum amount of waste can be recycled and that all the waste it collects is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Waste King was formed, in 2007, by Glenn Currie and Andy Cattigan, who had experience in sales and IT respectively and were keen to ‘do something to help the environment’.

About Portable Offices

Portable Offices - an ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 accredited company with its headquarters in Chester - is a leading UK supplier of temporary offices, portable buildings, mobile offices, modular buildings, storage containers and other portable units. These are designed, factory produced and delivered to any site throughout the UK. Many organisations across the UK, from both the private and public sector, choose Portable Offices as specialists in the hire and sale of temporary office, accommodation and storage solutions, whether new or refurbished.

Further information from:

Glenn Currie,
Waste King Ltd, 0800 234 3657 / 07761 577001; glenn.currie@wasteking.co.uk

Bob Little,
Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405; bob.little@boblittlepr.com