Solving skip waste
December 1st 2007

Solving skip With demands on reductions in the amount of waste products being diverted to landfill, John Wade required some solutions to improve its skip waste sorting process and turned to GAME Engineering. The new line incorporates John Wades' existing intake and screen and conveys the skip waste from here onto a waste sorting conveyor line. This line initially feeds into a waste sorting enclosure with 10 stations with drop chutes into specified bunkers holdings storage skips for ease of movement. The enclosure includes power and lighting, with insulated walls. This ensures that the pickers have a safe, clean and dust free working environment. The picking stations are used to manually sort and remove waste items such as paper, textiles and wood.

Once the waste stream has passed through the manual waste sorting area, it passes out of the sorting enclosure and beneath a high powered over-band magnet, which passes off the ferrous metals into a designated storage container for reprocessing.

The stream then passes over an Eddy Current Separator where the non-ferrous metals and the plastics are sorted and sent to separate storage containers for re-processing.