As the age-old saying goes, a picture tells a thousand words. So, to help illustrate exactly how businesses, large and small, can achieve a return on investment (ROI) from a cardboard baler, we have prepared an infographic focusing on this very subject.
The waste baler graphic conveys the scenario currently being experienced by ABC Logistics. T...
With an extensive selection of waste baler consumables within our range, customers could be forgiven for not knowing which product is right for them. After all, baling tape, baling twine and baling wire all help to secure recycled materials into a neat and tidy bundle. But is one type of consumable better suited to specific balers than others?
Our ...
Riverside Waste Machinery has launched a new waste baler training programme to boost skill-sets and safety within the recycling industry.
Covering everything from waste baling do’s and don’ts, to sequence error troubleshooting and basic baler maintenance, the intensive one hour sessions will equip operators with the knowledge they need to effectively run any of Riverside’s vertical balers.
All course attendees will be iss...
In this second ‘baler of the month’ feature, we quiz Riverside Waste Machinery’s MD Jonathan Oldfield on the key features and stand-out benefits of the RWM500 mill size baler.
Describe this machine in one sentence:
A powerful mill size baling press which produces large bales that maximise revenue yield, load capacities and transport efficiencies.
What type of organ...
Plastic recycling is a very hot topic at the moment, and not just at Riverside HQ. We’ve seen a growing number of enquiries for our plastic balers, large and small, so we thought we’d explore the possible reasons why…
Plastics have been in the news a lot recently, not least because the new £5 note – adorned with the face of Sir Winston Churchill – is made from polymer rather than paper. The move marks the Bank of England’s plight to make ...
Riverside Waste Machinery's MD Jonathan Oldfield was recently interviewed by facilities management journal Tomorrow's FM, on the subject of on-site recycling. Keen to pass on as much practical advice as possible, Jon posed 10 top tips when devising a new recycling strategy. If you missed the resulting article, you can read it in full, here...
Following on from the introduction of the largely successful (and extremely contested) plastic bag tax, the Lib Dems have now proposed the need for a 5p levy on all paper coffee cups.
Currently coffee drinkers in the UK are consuming an alarming 5,000 coffee cups every minute – an outstanding 2.5 billion a year. And reports suggest that despite claims from many of the large...
Despite sustainability and the reduction of waste being a permanent goal for many households and businesses, Zero Waste Week falls every September to remind individuals and companies of the importance of recycling, reducing landfill waste and participating in the circular economy.
This Grassroots campaign was launched by Rachelle Strauss in 2008 in order to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of waste.
Although the eve...
In an industry crowded with technological innovations, the value of old faithful waste balers can often get overlooked. That's why Riverside Waste Machinery's managing director Jonathan Oldfield was asked to speak to Recycling Today recently, regarding the role that baling presses play in the world of recovered fibre? If you missed the resulting article, you can read it i...
To us, cardboard is one of the most valuable commodities in the modern ‘waste’ environment. So many of us handle it on a daily basis, it’s easy to recycle and it can be transformed into a vast array of other products in its next ‘life’. We’re therefore great advocates of cardboard baling and recycling – as the number of cardboard balers in our fleet no doubt shows!
But, for tho...
In this new ‘baler of the month’ feature, we quiz Riverside Waste Machinery’s MD Jonathan Oldfield on the key features and stand-out benefits of our chosen model.
This month, the RWM 75 waste baler is the focus of our quick-fire questions:
Describe this machine in one sentence:
The RWM 75 is a robust yet compact waste baler that is incredibly easy to use.
We read an interesting article recently which described the ‘quantum leap’ that has occurred in the plastics industry.
The words were taken from Ton Emans, president of the Plastics Recyclers Europe management committee, who spoke at the organisation’s Portugal congress in June.
He outlined the significant increase in global plastics production, which has grown from 1.5 million tonnes in 1950 to 311 million tonnes in 2014...
Riverside’s managing director Jonathan Oldfield was recently asked to pen some advice for readers of the Yorkshire Post. He honed in on top 10 tips to help businesses devise a new recycling strategy. If you missed the resulting article, you can read it in full here…
Remember the mantra ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ – it prioritises what we should do with business waste and in what order. We know it’s better to avoid pr...
It has long been cited as one of the most important materials for the UK to recycle. Clean, used cardboard and paper provides mills throughout the country with recovered fibre that they can then transform into new card, newspaper and tissue-based products.
The prices that these mills will pay for a tonne of recycled paper and cardboard have risen throughout the early months of 2016. There’...
It may sound like a bold statement for a company like Riverside Waste Machinery to make. For almost two decades we’ve spoken to clients, colleagues, peers and the wider industry about the importance of recycling. We’ve encouraged people to think carefully about the materials they disregard as ‘rubbish’ and therefore throw away. We’ve shared tips to help prevent these valuable resources from being sent to landfill, and we’ve sold hundreds of balers t...
This week we praised the efforts of Coca-Cola and Keep Britain Tidy, who have launched a joint initiative to better understand why people littler soft drinks packaging.
It is obviously a subject close to the ‘hearts’ of both organisations, so it was fantastic to read about the efforts they are going to, t...
We’ve read a lot about the proposed standardisation of waste collection processes recently, with Defra Minister Rory Stewart reportedly in favour of a more consistent approach. He has claimed that a staggering £19m could be saved in London every year, if a single system was introduced. Roll that out across the country and the benefits could be phenomenal.
Riverside’s managing director Jonathan Oldfield considers the likely impact on the waste and recycling industry, if Britain’s membership of the European Union comes to an end…
“Is Britain better off in or out of the EU? I’d love to get hold of Google’s statistics in a few months’ time, to learn how many people have explored this much-debated question.
Some think tank reports have suggested there’ll be a...
It perhaps seems unlikely to think that anyone outside the waste and recycling profession would consider our industry as rich in entrepreneurship. But the more you read about innovation at various stages of the supply chain, the more you see just how much clever thinking is taking place for the benefit of businesses and the environment alike.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online defines an entrepreneur as: ‘someone who
When it comes to the resource landscape, technologies that address waste to energy challenges often attract a lot of attention. To a certain degree, that’s understandable. Innovations in this arena are helping the UK and overseas nations create fossil fuel substitutes from materials that could potentially be otherwise classed as, well, rubbish! And some of the progress being achieved in this market, as our planet strives to work environmentally smarter, truly is ground-bre...
Last month, Riverside was just one of a large number of organisations in the environmental sector to express grave concerns surrounding potential cuts to funding. But it seems the very vocal efforts of businesses large and small, have actually been heard.
Chancellor George Osborne has announced that the Environment Agency will receive an additional £20...
We’ve read some encouraging reports in the national news recently. The UK economy is set to outstrip the Eurozone in terms of growth, according to the latest Economic Outlook released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), for instance. A “robust pace” is the term used to describe the momentum that the UK is predicted to experience over the next two years, with employment figures projected to continually rise.
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‘Who is responsible for driving recycling progress?’ It is perhaps an impossible question to answer. Those of us in the industry are so passionate about making continued steps forward when it comes to resource efficiency that sometimes we scratch our heads as to how to drive further momentum.
Other people would argue that this question is actually not that complex at all – everyone has a role to play in ensuring ongoing progress. This is a viewp...
Normanton-headquartered International Procurement and Logistics (IPL) is a long-standing Riverside Waste Machinery customer. Part of the Asda Walmart Group, IPL is responsible for sourcing and importing produce for onward shipment into Asda distribution centres and stores.
A few months back,
Riverside Waste Machinery's managing director Jonathan Oldfield spoke to A1 Retail magazine recently, regarding the level of recycling progress being seen in that sector. But, in a bid to encourage even further development, he shared a bit of advice for the journal's readers. If you missed the resulting article, you can read it in full here...
“Following the prolonged economic turbulence of recent years, very few people would blame retailers for ‘batting d...
Deciding on the best fit machinery for your needs is not always easy. So, Riverside Waste Machinery's managing director Jonathan Oldfield spoke to CIWM magazine recently, to advise how best to tackle this task. His resulting top 10 tips appeared in the journal's September issue, in perfect timing for RWM 2015 (Birmingham NEC 15-17 September). If you missed his article, you can read it in full here...
“Every year without fail, the NEC exhibition hall aisles b...
The Riverside Waste Machinery team became engrossed in some LinkedIn dialogue recently, which saw a number of industry professionals commenting on the extent to which UK businesses are applying the waste hierarchy. So we thought we’d throw some of our own comments into the mix too…
The LinkedIn thread was originally started, it seems, by Peter Jones, Senior Consultant at Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd. Peter encouraged people to co...
Leading UK waste baler provider Riverside Waste Machinery has launched a new consultancy service to complement its existing industry offering.
A free waste handling audit is now available for contacts old and new. By completing a small handful of carefully selected questions, Jonathan Oldfield and his team will cleverly audit the participant’s needs before advising how they...
In the wake of continued economic problems in China, Riverside’s MD Jonathan Oldfield considers how our domestic recycling sector may be affected as a result…
The UK economy has had a lot to celebrate recently. Accelerated growth was reported at the end of Q2, for example, which brought continued feelings of encouragement and reassurance to a business community still bearing many recession ‘scars’.
With such po...
There’s no denying the fact that the UK has had a long-standing problem with litter. Not everyone is to blame of course, and a large number of people would eagerly proclaim that it is a filthy habit. The issue also costs tax payers a staggering £850m a year to address, which is surely a sum everyone would avoid forking out. Yet still the levels of littering remain fairly unchanged for the past 12 years. The efforts of environmental charity Hubbub, an organisation working hard to address th...