Kingsnorth Waste Management

Kingsnorth Waste Management works closely with several industry partners and government organisations. Our most recent partnership is with Remade South East, which is a not-for-profit company. The partnership aims to divert valuable waste away from landfill into new products and end-uses, by implementing re-use and recycling schemes. Remade works with businesses like ourselves, public organisations and community groups in the South East region to find practical solutions to the more challenging waste issues. Recently, we identified a new plastic product, an aluminium lined plastic water pipe used for piping fresh water across contaminated or brownfield sites. This product is so new that not all construction companies are aware of it, and therefore the machinery to separate the aluminium from the plastic was difficult to source. As the two components already have thriving markets we were confident that in the future this would be a viable product to recycle. After extensive investigation the KWM team identified a number of studies carried out in other countries to test or manufacture the product. Our investigations enabled us to produce a report on the viability of developing machinery for this specialised waste product.