Time To Switch?

摘要

For those of us based "on the mainland", it would be easy to assume that the island of Ireland didn't have anything to teach the rest of the UK. Wrong. History will show that local authorities in Northern Ireland were amongst the first (outside Germany, Holland and Scandinavia) to adopt plastic wheeled waste bins. More recently, operators in the Republic of Ireland were using bin weighing systems while the rest of our industry was just thinking about it. Now? In addition to the in-house power generation plant at Garvagh, River Ridge Recycling will shortly be bringing online a brand new £171 m energy from waste facility near Belfast, one of the largest in the whole of the UK. As well as having several months experience of operating an all-electric materials handler, that is.