Business Support to Cottenham Skip Hire
A business support contract on behalf of WRAP to assist Cottenham Skip hire, which provides waste and recycling management at Cottenham, Cambridgeshire for the surrounding area.
Cottenham Skips Ltd provides waste and recycling management at Cottenham, Cambridgeshire for the surrounding area. The owners were interested in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of their facility and needed to reduce material going to landfill and increase the potential to recover more product from the waste stream.
Two stages of support were provided:
Stage 1 involved:
- Site visits and meetings to identify key issues;
- Discussions with WRAP, Directors and staff;
- Data gathering - in respect of facility inputs, outputs and processes;
- Composition analysis;
- Background analysis (market and locality).
The outline methodology was required to pragmatically determine:
- The potential yield of different materials from the waste stream;
- Potential recovery methods/mechanisms/processes and how they might be integrated into the existing process;
- Potential market values of any new material and thus the budget for machinery and/or labour in respect of further sorting and thus the investment case for new material recovery.
Stage 2 involved:
- Assisting in the preparation of a business plan in order to install additional recycling equipment at the current site.
- Assisting to develop, expand and raise commercial finance to support the venture.
- Assisting in identification of appropriate equipment to assist with their recycling rates.
