Yorwaste's flagship MRF at Seamer Carr, Scarborough was formally opened in February 2004. The facility sorts and bales the kerbside collections from a large area of the North Riding. Middletons have installed a Presona 100t baler with in-floor conveyor that separately bales newsprint, cardboard, cans and plastic bottles.
Malcolm Downs, Yorwaste's Operations Manager expressed himself delighted with the way Middleton's had carried out the installation. "I researched the baler market 18 months ago when we needed one for our Hessay site, and decided that the Presona was the only machine for us. So when we got approval for this MRF I knew the Presona would be right for the job. I particularly liked the team of engineers who lived up here for nearly a month. They were very professional and always took that extra bit of trouble."
The pre-sorted waste is first passed over a vibrating screen that removes any small dross pieces, then conveyed through the picking cabin. Foreign bodies are picked out leaving the cans to be magnetically separated into tin and aluminium. "We particularly wanted to make the picker's job simple so all they have to do is take the articles off the conveyor and drop them into the chutes by their side. There's no throwing or strength required. The enclosures beneath the cabin are then mechanically emptied into the nearby in-floor conveyor to be baled."
Yorwaste is a waste management company owned by Yorkshire County Council and the City of York Council. It was set up in 1993 and runs eight waste management facilities that together handle nearly a million tonnes of waste each year.
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Sorting cabin with bins below.
Conveyor shown to left
The main conveyor up to the big Presona baler
is split into two stages to avoid bunching material
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| The conveyor up to the
sorting cabin |
Inside the sorting cabin. Material is
simply dropped into the appropriate chute.
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