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New waste sites UK: leads for plant suppliers

The waste sites that have just been allowed to take more.

A recycler cannot start shredding a new material, or double what it takes through the gate, until its permit says it may. The permit names the material, the tonnes and the operations, which is very nearly a specification for the plant that has to be bought.

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PR/GH4521KL/V003written for process and treatment plant

Recycler cleared to take plastic film at an existing yard

  • Permitted tonnage rises from 30,000 to 55,000 tonnes a year.
  • Plastic film and packaging added to the accepted materials.
  • Shredding and baling added to the permitted operations.
  • Varied 12 September 2026.

Twenty-five thousand more tonnes of a material the yard has never handled, and two operations it has never run. The shredder and the baler are not optional, and nothing has been bought yet.

What puts a card here
A waste or recycling site is permitted to open, to raise its tonnage or to take a new material.
When the money moves
Plant for a new material is usually bought before the material can be accepted.
You sell
effluent and water treatment, pumps and tanks, processing and abatement plant

Three things the card tells you that a list cannot.

The permission is the start of it. What makes the call worth making is what the other records say about the company holding it, 13 of them read together.

  1. The tonnage before and after, which sizes the line.
  2. The materials and operations the permit adds, which tells you what kind of plant rather than just how much.
  3. Whether the operator already runs other sites, which tells you whether you are selling to a first-timer or into a fleet of yards.

Who reads this one.

  • Shredders, balers and screening plant
  • Materials recovery and sorting lines
  • Anaerobic digestion and composting plant
  • Conveyors and materials handling
  • Plant hire for waste sites

Questions about this one.

Don't the trade papers already report new waste sites?
Some of them, when they are large or controversial. Most permit changes are neither, and they never make the news. The card reaches every one, with the tonnage and the materials in a form you can act on.
Do you cover local authority waste contracts?
No. Those are tendered publicly and a tender service will serve you better. This is private operators changing what their own sites may do.

If this is what you sell, this is your category.

You sell effluent and water treatment, pumps and tanks, processing and abatement plant. Choose “Process and treatment plant” when you sign in and every card you are shown is read for that trade.

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