Category Archives: Recycling

Customer Focus – McLeod Glaziers

stacked scrapes of broken window pane glass ready to be recycled

Each issue we ask one of Binn Group’s many clients to explain why they use our waste management services and how our company is helping them meet their recycling commitments and “Zero To Landfill” aspirations. Here we turn the spotlight on Perth-based McLeod Glaziers who produce specific waste streams as they service customers throughout Scotland. […]

Fleet Investment

Binn Group’s operation is not just about getting today’s job done. There is a huge amount of forward planning that goes into securing the company’s success in the future. And one of the main areas where forward planning is essential is fleet renewal and replacement. The company’s transport chiefs are already selecting trucks which will […]

Conor Davidson – Life on the Yard

Conor Davidson – Life on the Yard

Conor, based at Shore Road tells us about his Life on the Yard Name: Conor Davidson Job title: Non-Ferrous processor Time spent in recycling: 3 years What does your job involve? My job involves helping customers, weighing in Non-Ferrous material and processing metals. What is the hardest part of your job? It’s getting out of […]

Customer Focus – Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre

dundee rep

The popular theatre outlines their contract with Binn Group. “Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre believe that everyone has a responsibility to take care of the environment in which we operate and make best use of resources. As part of our environmental policy we aim to reduce our waste and to recycle as much as possible. […]

Anaerobic Digestion – A food waste process story

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It is estimated that within the United Kingdom 7 million1 tonnes of food is disposed of by British households each year, much of which was still fit for human consumption. Within Scotland, increasing emphasis is being placed on reducing the level of food waste going to landfill. As a result, the government has introduced strict guidelines […]

World leading plastics processing facility planned for Binn Eco Park

Project Beacon

Binn Group to play key role in global “first” £3.4 million facility to tackle environmental bugbear State-of-the-art plant to be at centre of Scotland’s plastic processing Binn Group is pleased and proud to be at the forefront of the battle against plastic with the announcement of plans for the world’s first industrial scale plastics recycling […]

Multi-million-pound investment marks latest stage in Binn Group growth

Binn Group fleet

A multi-million-pound investment in plant and vehicles has propelled Perthshire-based recycling and resource management company Binn Group to the forefront of Scotland’s war on waste. Hard on the heels of the development and commissioning of Scotland’s first Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) facility, the country’s leading independent waste management company is now investing significantly in upgrading […]

Binn Group’s first urban satellite centre is complete

Binn Group branded skip truck parked outside Shore Road Recycling Centre, Perth

The purchase, redevelopment and populating of Binn Group’s first urban satellite centre is complete with the Shore Road Recycling Centre in Perth now fully operational. The site’s two-storey offices now house Binn Group’s administration, finance and sales department staff – relocated from the Binn Ecopark headquarters at Glenfarg – dovetailing key elements  of the company’s […]

Binn Group secures Stirling Council contract

A person carrying a blue plastic box containing bottles and cans

Stirling Council has contracted Binn Group to handle all their 3-D plastics and cans waste. Binn Group has a 17-month contract – with the possibility to extend for a further year – to collect all waste in these categories from Stirling Council’s facility at Lower Polmaise and transfer it to their Glenfarg complex for further […]

Binn Group is now one of East / Central Scotland’s largest accredited metal re-processors

A collection of metal rims from tyres

We handle scrap metal of all types at both our Glenfarg recycling complex and our recently established Shore Road Recycling Centre in Perth. Metal recycling is a vast international industry with around 400 million tons of scrap and redundant metals being recycled worldwide each year. Binn Group is now one of East/Central Scotland’s largest accredited […]

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