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Recycling bollards to reduce landfill
The challenge:
To encourage customers to use recycled bollards to reduce landfill waste.
The solution:
Cartledge sets high standards for recycling. Part of the company's sustainability target is to ensure that 80% of its products can be recycled, and that 20% of its products are reused.
To this end, the company is working with its supply chain partner, Cargo Loops of Doncaster, to investigate the reuse and renovation of bollards - which will reduce the quantity going to landfill.
Under the scheme, bollards are returned to Cartledge depots and then on to Cargo Loops, where they are sorted into 'useable' and 'non-reusable'.
The bases are stripped out and re-straightened and the shells are submersed in an ultra sonic tank to remove grime. The bollards are then further scrubbed if necessary with traffic film remover, and the bases re-attached. The new legends and colouring are then added to complete the process.
All damaged shells are refurbished to a high standard, and are then offered back to the contract they came from at a reduced rate.
The benefits include:
A reduction in landfill waste.
A reduction in cost for local authorities - and therefore better use of limited budgets.
A reduction in the use of finite resources.
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