Reduce waste handling costs

Director Greg Alder says: "With over 250 tonnes per year of cardboard recycled and a further 250 tonnes shredded for infills, waste can become a real issue if it’s not dealt with at source."

Compact & Bale’s solution to reduce waste handling costs at the site was to install the AutoLoadBaler, which has a small footprint and is said to have a lower cost than a horizontal semi-automatic baler. The waste team can now continue without incurring overtime costs on baling.

Cannon Packing bales over 20 tonnes of cardboard per month, consisting mainly of small to medium size boxes generated from 1.75 million packs per month. The enormous amount of loose boxes were being double handled firstly by the packing team putting them into pallet boxes, then being collected by a member of the waste team on a pallet truck and then handled again to be placed into the existing baler. This process would take 10-15 minutes per pallet box.

The AutoLoadBaler and collection cart system located at the source of waste eliminates the double handling and saves 15 man hours per week, which will lead to Cannon saving £8000 per year. 15 collection carts are now placed at the ends of the packing lines so the Cannon Packing waste team simply wheel the cart to the AutoLoadBaler, replace the empty cart with the full one, push the button and walk away.