EMR has opened a major fridge-recycling plant in the West Midlands.
The Warrington-headquartered scrap metal giant began operating from the facility in Walsall.
It has twice the capacity of the previous plant in the area, and uses latest technology such as robotic separation systems.
EMR separates out materials from fridges including steel, copper and plastic to reuse in new products.
The Walsall plant will only recycle units containing pentane, with those containing CFCs being safely treated at another of the company’s sites, in north London.
Chris Preston, deputy director for resource and waste at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, officially opened the new facility.
Glasgow-headquartered waste management firm Enva recently moved a step closer to opening a fridge-recycling plant in central Scotland.
The company announced earlier this month that it had completed the Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s pollution prevention and control process for the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment processing facility in Perthshire.
