Ecogen’s Alresford site circa late 1970’s
Here is an image taken in the late 1970’s over our industrial estate in Alresford. The highlighted area is the premises Ecogen Recycling now occupies. Back then it was a saw mill called White and Etherington which closed for business in October 2013, having traded for many generations.
New weighbridge office provides room for growth
Since moving into our Alresford site in 2015 our team has tripled in size. In order to keep growing we took the decision to lose some workshop space in favour of a new weighbridge office. This office will soon be home to; Mel and Debbie our weighbridge operators and reception team, Maxine from accounts and
Ecogen continue to buy cardboard in uncertain times
Even in this uncertain time when the Chinese government have restricted import licences for many of the biggest paper mill groups in the world, Ecogen are still buying vast fibre tonnage from its suppliers all over the UK. With strong links into UK, EU, Vietnamese, Thai and Malaysian paper mills, Ecogen can always be one step ahead
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AXO-704HH paper shredder in operation
Cages of pre-sorted archive documents are tipped, using a rotating folk lift attachment, into the AXO-704HH shredder then the shredded paper is conveyed directly into the Presona LP50 automatic baler. This setup, designed by Presona UK, reduces manual handling and increases our document shredding capacity to 250 tonnes per week . James Lewis (commercial director)
Ecogen becomes preferred recycling partner of The HTA
On 14th March the Horticultural Trades Association teamed up with Ecogen Recycling and launched their new recycling scheme for garden centres and nurseries across Britain. Tim Bell (the HTA’s Commercial Manager) writes “Due to increased member interest in responsible waste recycling, we are delighted to announce the launch of our new plastic recycling scheme, brought to you by
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Operative Training Manual
Ecogen Recycling’s Operative Training Manual has been delivered hot off the press today. Special thanks to our H&S consultants The Business Health Partnership for their hard work putting this together. The manual covers every aspect of what we do from first aid to traffic management.
Ecogen take delivery of brand new JCB 4×4 WasteMaster
As part of an ongoing strategy to reduce maintenance and diesel costs, today Ecogen Recycling part-exchanged their JCB 35D 2-WD Waste Master (2009) for a brand new JCB Teletruk 35D 4×4 Waste Master. “I would like to thank Greenshields JCB for their timely delivery, it is a lovely piece of kit. I’m sure this machine
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We’re in Recycling Magazine!
Ecogen Recycling’s Managing Director, William Nicholls, talks to Recycling Magazine about investments and plans for the future. Read the full article (page 18-20) here Ecogen Recycling provides businesses with sustainable waste management solutions, including paper recycling, cardboard recycling, plastic recycling and confidential document destruction. If you’d like to talk to us about our commercial recycling services,
Bale clamp investment by Ecogen Recycling
Here is our new High Capacity Cascade 52G Recycling Clamp (The White Monster!!). Supplied to us by MHS attachments. That’s now a total of 7 Cascade attachments on our fleet of forklifts and JCBs. Ecogen Recycling in Hampshire provides companies with sustainable waste management solutions, including paper recycling, cardboard recycling and plastic recycling and secure