B.E.A.T Recycling Process

B.E.A.T RECYCLING

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Cardboard Collection
Cardboard collected from local shops.

On a daily basis members of the B.E.A.T team visit local premises, organisations and businesses to collect wastepaper, cardboard, plastic and drink cans.

The team travel out to neighbouring communities and will in the course of a week make over 200 collections. The support of local businesses to the B.E.A.T project has been fundamental to the projects success and ensures a plentiful supply of materials to recycle.

The team operate two vehicles sign written with the B.E.A.T logo. They convey the materials back to an industrial unit on the Macduff Industrial Estate. Here the materials will be sorted and graded for further processing.

Paper and cardboard are separated and graded, cardboard contaminated with plastic, staples and tape will be flattened and stored for onward transportation to Aberdeenshire Council Waste Services for processing and recycling.

The sign written B.E.A.T Van

Cardboard Shreding
Preparing to bale cardboard...

Baled paper and cardboard....

Animal Bedding Being Delivered
....used as animal bedding.

Uncontaminated paper and cardboard will be shredded and baled then sold on as animal bedding to local farmers and stables.

Drink cans are sorted and crushed then forwarded to Can-Do Community Recycling in Fraserburgh, which was jointly awarded with B.E.A.T the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities CoSLA Chairs Award in 2000.

Plastics are sorted and graded then compacted and baled for onward transportation to plastics recyclers.