BUILD - 2019 Infrastructure Awards

2019 Infrastructure Awards Build 9 Best Waste Management & Recycling Firm - Scotland Hamilton Waste & Recycling Ltd (HWR) is one of the largest, independent skip hire and commercial waste management companies in Scotland with a full range of environmental and recycling services. As part of our overview of a range of winners from this year’s Infrastructure Awards we profile the firm to find out more. advanced in Scotland and HWR is constantly pioneering new technology and developing the plant to keep at the forefront of the recycling industry. Here the company divert over 75% of all types of waste from landfill through one of the UK’s most sophisticated material recycling facilities. There has been over £10m invested in the site which was opened in 2014 and there are another two buildings being constructed this summer. As a family-owned and operated firm HWR is able to offer clients a personal service tailored to meet their needs. The team are very approachable and supportive, aiming to ensure that each and every client receives the service they expect. A pioneer in the industry, alongside its work recycling woodchip and other generic waste, HWR commissioned the very first turn key plasterboard recycling plant in Scotland in 2010. This is still Scotland’s only plasterboard recycling facility that produces gypsum to PAS 109 standards. The firm also commissioned Scotland’s first mattress recycling plant in November 2017. This plant enables HWR to recycle the steel, foam and polyester from the mattresses with 100% diversion from landfill and full traceability of all recycled materials after deconstruction. Ability to recycle 100,000 Tonnes of mattresses per year. Currently, being signatories with Zero Waste Scotland HWR as a company is already committed to Zero Waste Scotland targets, and as clients increasingly focus on reducing their environmental impact the firm will continue to drive towards even greater sustainability. As part of this focus the firm diverts between 97%-99% of all waste coming through its waste transfer stations through recycling and sending waste for RDF production. This already far exceeds the Zero Waste Scotland 2025 targets, and moving forward the firm will continue to strive towards even greater sustainability and further reduced waste. Overall, HWR has achieved incredible success over recent years, and looking ahead the company will seek to build upon the success of winning one of BUILD Magazine’s prestigious Infrastructure Awards for 2019 and strive towards even greater achievements over the years to come. ncorporated in 2002, HWR began life as a skip hire company, the firm is now regarded as a fully integrated waste collection and recycling company. Over the years the firm has achieved solid reputation for providing reliable and efficient skip hire and recycling service for construction and demolition waste as well as commercial and industrial waste in Edinburgh, the Lothians and the Borders. With a fleet of 31 vehicles HWR collect construction and demolition, commercial and industrial and trade waste within a 30-mile radius of the Edinburgh area. This waste is brought to HWR 15-acre state of the art materials recycling facility just outside Edinburgh. The site is one of the most technologically I Mar19043 Company: Hamilton Waste & Recycling Ltd Contact: Keir Hamilton Website: https://www.hamiltonwaste.com/