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Gypsum Recycling Ireland
Gypsum recycling firm gears up for guidance change
Kildare based Gypsum Recycling Ireland Ltd collects plasterboard and uses it to generate a gypsum raw material substituting virgin gypsum raw materials in industrial production.
The material is collected using a purpose-built grab truck, as well as through conventional skips and ro / ro containers.
The service has been rolled out to coincide with changes to guidance surrounding material with a gypsum content which came into place on April 1st 2009.
Previously, due to its high sulphate-bearing, the landfilling of gypsum together with biodegradable waste had been prohibited but construction waste with a "small content" had been allowed.
However, the Environment Agency announced in November 2008 that plasterboard with gypsum content would have to be separated from other material for reuse, recycling or landfilling after it found it could not define "an acceptable limit" for gypsum content in waste .
Gypsum Recycling said that its ‘crane and grab' will enable it to collect big bags or segregated skips of plasterboard waste to recycle at its gypsum recycling plant in Downpatrick.
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Gypsum Recycling currently offers plasterboard recycling services to companies and local authorities in Wales, the Midlands, London, and both Northern and Southern Ireland - where it has already introduced the crane and grab system.
Collected plasterboard is then processed by Gypsum Recycling through a separation and sorting machine. The machine segregates the paper lining, wood and metal fractions from the plasterboard, leaving powdered gypsum.
Recycled plasterboard is able to be used as a raw material in the manufacture of new plasterboard and plasterboard products; as a soil treatment agent for use in agriculture; and as an additive in cement clinker.
The development of legislative guidelines for recycled gypsum comes in the wake of the first standard for reprocessed plasterboard - the PAS-109:2008 - being launched by WRAP at the end of September 2008 (see letsrecycle.com story).
Development of the PAS-109 standard is being coupled with further work on the recyclability of plasterboard, with a consultation on a draft Quality Protocol having closed at the end of January 2009.
Councils More and more councils have started to provide plasterboard recycling services in light of changes to legislation and demand from residents for more recycling services.
Recycling for Northern Ireland, in Northern Ireland.
Rather than transport large volumes of waste out of Northern Ireland, Gypsum Recycling Ireland have entered into partnership with Mac Nabb Bros in Downpatrick. All waste collected in Northern Ireland will be processed at Mac Nabbs and the end product delivered to Customers across the island if Ireland. A network of collection partners will collect and segregate the plasterboard material and deliver to Mac Nabbs fully covered facility. The collection service is available across Northern Ireland.
Gypsum Recycling uses a purpose-built 'crane and grab'
system to collect plasterboard for recycling
Kildare based Gypsum Recycling Ireland Ltd collects plasterboard and uses it to generate a gypsum raw material substituting virgin gypsum raw materials in industrial production.
The material is collected using a purpose-built grab truck, as well as through conventional skips and ro / ro containers.
The service has been rolled out to coincide with changes to guidance surrounding material with a gypsum content which came into place on April 1st 2009.
Previously, due to its high sulphate-bearing, the landfilling of gypsum together with biodegradable waste had been prohibited but construction waste with a "small content" had been allowed.
However, the Environment Agency announced in November 2008 that plasterboard with gypsum content would have to be separated from other material for reuse, recycling or landfilling after it found it could not define "an acceptable limit" for gypsum content in waste .
Gypsum Recycling said that its ‘crane and grab' will enable it to collect big bags or segregated skips of plasterboard waste to recycle at its gypsum recycling plant in Downpatrick.
Gypsum
Gypsum Recycling currently offers plasterboard recycling services to companies and local authorities in Wales, the Midlands, London, and both Northern and Southern Ireland - where it has already introduced the crane and grab system.
Collected plasterboard is then processed by Gypsum Recycling through a separation and sorting machine. The machine segregates the paper lining, wood and metal fractions from the plasterboard, leaving powdered gypsum.
Recycled plasterboard is able to be used as a raw material in the manufacture of new plasterboard and plasterboard products; as a soil treatment agent for use in agriculture; and as an additive in cement clinker.
The development of legislative guidelines for recycled gypsum comes in the wake of the first standard for reprocessed plasterboard - the PAS-109:2008 - being launched by WRAP at the end of September 2008 (see letsrecycle.com story).
Development of the PAS-109 standard is being coupled with further work on the recyclability of plasterboard, with a consultation on a draft Quality Protocol having closed at the end of January 2009.
Councils More and more councils have started to provide plasterboard recycling services in light of changes to legislation and demand from residents for more recycling services.
Recycling for Northern Ireland, in Northern Ireland.
Rather than transport large volumes of waste out of Northern Ireland, Gypsum Recycling Ireland have entered into partnership with Mac Nabb Bros in Downpatrick. All waste collected in Northern Ireland will be processed at Mac Nabbs and the end product delivered to Customers across the island if Ireland. A network of collection partners will collect and segregate the plasterboard material and deliver to Mac Nabbs fully covered facility. The collection service is available across Northern Ireland.
Gypsum Recycling uses a purpose-built 'crane and grab'
system to collect plasterboard for recycling
