Our Recycling Centre

Clearaway receives non-hazardous waste via its own fleet of small and large skip trucks and direct from other local businesses and skip hire firms who wish to benefit from our processing technology.

On arrival, all vehicles are weighed and loads are thoroughly checked before acceptance. Once verified and tipped, the waste is put into a large shredder, which breaks everything down into pieces no larger than 450mm. This makes the identification and separation process a lot easier for the Clearaway picking staff – the unbeatable human element of the process. The pickers will target larger items for recycling while smaller items will continue into the mechanical sorting phase.

Ferrous metals such as iron and steel, as well as non-ferrous metals such as tin, aluminium and copper are all machine recovered for processing into new metals. All electrical wires are stripped of their insulation, and the clean copper reprocessed for manufacture into new cables.

Similarly, plastics ranging from old toys to uPVC window frames, are all segregated for recycling into new products. Waste wood is graded and either used for new wood products or as biomass in energy recovery facilities, whilst bricks and concrete are sorted and crushed down to make everything from clean, size-graded hardcore for foundations to concrete blocks for the construction industry.

Finally, any light waste is removed by an air separator and shredded into small pieces to produce a refuse derived fuel (RDF) for use in energy plants instead of fossil fuels such as coal and gas.

Items too heavy to be caught by the air separator are generally small stones and bits of broken glass. These are called fines and they are cleaned for use in things like concrete production.

Clearaway’s ambition is to be a good corporate citizen. To deliver high quality waste treatment which supports the circular economy and to be a good and valued neighbour to the businesses and residents of Basildon and Essex.

Our facilities are constantly improving adopting new technology and ensuring a reliable, safety compliant and environmentally friendly service. Please get in touch with us today to discuss your waste requirements and to discover how we can help.

Dedicated to 100% Recycled Waste

We are dedicated to recycling 100% of the waste we collect and any non­recyclables go into an energy from waste facility resulting in your waste being used to generate electricity.