PLANNING chiefs at Warrington have given the go-ahead for a plastics recycling firm to construct a silo for the storage of plastic pellets.
The scheme at YS Reclamation Ltd, Kingsland Grange, Woolston is part of a plan to enable the company to increase the amount of Polyethylene film it recycles each month – diverting it from landfill and preventing it from polluting the environment.
About 700 tonnes of the film is already recycled each month and it is planned to increase this over the next five years.
The silo will be used to store plastic pellets and also transfer the product to tanker lorries for delivery to customers.
Currently, all reprocessed pellets are packaged into one-tonne bulk bags for transport to customers on curtain trailers.
The new process will reduce the need to use “single-use” bulk bags.
Warrington Borough Council planning officers were told the company, founded in 2013 and employs 30 people at Warrington and Skelmersdale.
The scheme will mean the company is able to operate in a more environmentally friendly way and will also enable a more cost-effective method of transporting the finished product.
The silo will be constructed next to an existing building to will not have any significant visual impact on the area. There may be some additional noise at times, but the site is in an employment area that already has a high ambient noise level.
