The system itself was designed and installed using 4 different engineering contractors and with the provision of some brand new equipment such as the compactor machine and container, mixed with some existing equipment from MBM’s factory in Pollockshaws such as the chopping fan, material balance fan ad dust extraction unit. The project began at the end of December and was completed 23^rd January in its entirety. Highlander provides the power for all the machines and simply recharges the consumption at cost, by way of specially installed electricity meter. The total investment by Highlander is nearly £50,000, to be paid back over a long-term contract with MBM for all recyclable materials collected from the MBM sites.

Some materials will need to be collected by way of plastic printer’s waste tubs such as polythene, cardboard and larger paper fractions which cannot be pumped through the air system provided, and this is done by way of curtain side vehicle, on a daily basis from the Pollockshaws site, with all printing operations moving to the new MBM site from March 2016.