Marlin Industries is a ZERO TO LANDFILL business focused on sustainability. We have been adopting the principles of circularity laid out in the government’s UK Industrial Strategy and are leading the low carbon manufacturing revolution within the cable industry, offering cradle to grave solutions rather than sending to landfill.
As a circular economy business, we openly share best practice to help improve waste management systems within our existing customer base and the cable industry as a whole. Our aim is be the industry leaders in waste and recycling practices and technologies providing innovative solutions to our customers sustainability challenges with the aim of reducing costs and improving environmental performance.
Our aim is be the industry leaders in waste and recycling practices and technologies.
1. DRUM COLLECTIONS & DISPOSAL
Collection of empty timber cable drums from end user sites:
- Dedicated administration resource
- Utilisation of extensive haulage fleet providing national coverage
- 2 different Cable Drum Collection Services: Reactive and Proactive
- Collection and return normally within 10 days
- Ability to repair and refurbish cable drums to enable reuse or ethically dispose of drums if no longer of use or are deemed unfit for purpose
- Drums beyond economic repair pass through our in-house recycling facility shredding and chipping to convert non-repairable drums into biomass fuel and animal bedding
- Metalwork is fully recovered and either re-used in our refurbished drums or fully recycled
2. WOOD WASTE DISPOSAL
All wood waste is recycled on site by ourselves at our main site in Wrexham.
- As an Accredited Packaging Wood Waste Reprocessor we only have the necessary Waste Carriers Licence, EA and Local Site Certificates for Recycling Wood based product i.e. doors (without glass), trusses, floorboards, panels, timber, pallets, skids, wooden cases, crates, broken wood components and small quantities of hardboard or MDF
- Various collection methods available utilising own fleet: 13.5m Curtainsider vehicle (volumetrically significantly more cost effective collection method than traditional 40 Yard Ro-Ro Skip method), Rigid & Urban Vehicle, Ro-Ro Skip on an exchange basis.
3. STEEL DRUM DISPOSAL
Collection of steel drum from end users:
- Marlin are able to recycle steel drums up to 3.2m flange
- Ability to break drums down into manageable sizes to enable recycling.
- Scrap recovery value is provided back to end user minus transportation costs to mitigate some of the initial purchase value.
4. TIPPING
Marlin Industries also provide our customers with the facility to deliver wood waste to our site for disposal.
- Marlin take all grades of non-hazardous wood waste and can provide an ethical wood waste tipping and disposal service at competitive rates.
- Varied pricing structure based on vehicle type: Rigid Vehicle, Skip Vehicle or Artic/Draw Bar Vehicle
5. WOOD WASTE CLASSIFICATION
Wood waste categorised into Grades A, B and C: –
- Category A – Unpainted timber, clean wood such as pallets, packing crates (which can be stencilled). Wood can contain some metal contaminates as metals will be removed during processing using powerful magnets. No other contaminates allowed e.g. plastic liners, banding, cling wrap etc.
- Category B – Painted timber, plywood, OSB, chipboard (except faced chipboard such as Melamine).
- Category C – Pressure treated timber and Melamine Faced & Engineered wood.
- Marlin Industries Ltd are only able to process and accept Category A, B & C Grade Wood Waste.
- All wood waste is processed through our on-site wood waste plant in Wrexham.
6. CABLE RECYCLING
Requests sent from clients to collect any remnants and packaging.
- Advice of a storage / distribution requirement received via a customer packing list.
- Goods received and offloaded and placed into storage, all goods are receipted into Marlin SAP by drum number in the client warehouse & by cable type.
- Our customers call off specific product types & lengths from held stock lists.
- Clients may also require a bespoke length cut from stock cut to required specification and repackaged.
- Distribution is arranged to the customers’ site requirement and delivery windows.
- Processes are fully auditable and reports can be produced for all activities.
- Advice of a storage / distribution requirement received via a customer packing list.
7. SALE OF PRN’s
- Marlin Industries is registered with the Department of Environment as an Accredited Packaging Waste Reprocessor.
- As a result of our continued investment in the conversion of packing scrap into useful products, we can also sell a limited number of PRN’s which can be used to offset our customer obligations to recycle packaging materials.
