Yet another... recycling plant fire
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It's not even getting the chance to get to the recycling centres - the local tips are going on fire now.
http://www.kentlive.news/blaze-rages-this-morning-...
http://www.kentlive.news/blaze-rages-this-morning-...
Another one today, in Prescott near Liverpool http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-38...
The pic below was taken from StAnnes
The pic below was taken from StAnnes
About as exciting & irregular as a whiplash insurance claim these days 
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I'd say it was surprising, or even more than that, that all these materials handling experts didn't quite understand that this kind of stuff is a bit more likely to go up and so take appropriate precautions, but then I remember the above
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How do they get insurance
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.I'd say it was surprising, or even more than that, that all these materials handling experts didn't quite understand that this kind of stuff is a bit more likely to go up and so take appropriate precautions, but then I remember the above
.How do they get insurance
.hidetheelephants said:
DukeDickson said:
How do they get insurance .
Evidently from the recent posts from those that know insurance is largely unaffordable..lease company takes the hit for the plant and machinery and the cancil cleans up the mess job jobbed Bruv !!
saaby93 said:
That firm have just been fined £80k for the death of a worker on another site: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/729681/Wase-firm-...And the firm is now in administration - hence the paltry fine - so nothing to see here at all.
boxxob said:
How do they get licences? The LA now insist on turning up and charging you for them to check you had a kitchen window fitted correctly, but these idiots perform the same stunt over and over again. It is a scam.
Depends who's running the erm enterpriseNotice how the fire brigade always 'let it burn out' rather than 'try to save it so it can be sold' or should that be 'have to be paid to ship somewhere'
fatjon said:
Been watching this going on for years. Pleased to see I'm not the only one.
I always figured that the clue, as always, is the old adage, "follow the money".
I have to be threatened and cajoled to stick s
te in the right bin. Surely if this ste was worth anything to anyone I would be offered money for it rather than being fined for not giving it away? My conclusion is that it's worth jack st to anyone and firms are being financialy encouraged to collect it by dodgy grants and contracts in order to meet our EU obligations. The government then looks the other way when it self combusts.
Some of it IS worth money. Currently (this week - prices of most grades change weekly) in your green bin: mixed paper is worth £90/mt; cardboard is £120/mt; Alu cans are £800+; plastics vary between £150 (PET = coke/water bottles); & £400 (HDPE - milk/shampoo bottles). That's what people like me pay to the people who empty your bins. You aren't offered money for it, because it needs to be sorted by your collector into something that is clean, uncontaminated, worth buying & these days, worth exporting. ie not full of nappies, clothing, grass cuttings, rotting food, glass. Although, to be fair paying the householder is an idea worth considering: it could raise the quality of the material leaving the country - something the EA is keen on. Those waste products go directly to reprocessors & mills, primarily in Asia/Far East for remaking back into - newsprint, packaging, cardboard, bottles, cans, car parts as well as a million other products (animal bedding, or road/tarmac filler for example etc...China alone buys 12million tonnes a year of UK waste paper - mainly cardboard.I always figured that the clue, as always, is the old adage, "follow the money".
I have to be threatened and cajoled to stick s
te in the right bin. Surely if this ste was worth anything to anyone I would be offered money for it rather than being fined for not giving it away? My conclusion is that it's worth jack st to anyone and firms are being financialy encouraged to collect it by dodgy grants and contracts in order to meet our EU obligations. The government then looks the other way when it self combusts.The stuff that you put in your black & brown bins (for example) goes to RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) power stations - mainly in Europe (we aren't geared up much here), composting (Anaerobic digestion plants) or landfill. Landfilling costs your rubbish collector £100/mt++ so they want to avoid it if they can.
One factor that waste collectors are struggling to cope with these days, which didn't exist before: batteries. Millions of devices & their unstable little power units chucked every year & subject to heat, damp, pressure...& the occasional lightly tossed match...
saaby93 said:
Drove past this one at work yesterday, hubby saw it well alight at 4.45am, at 9am it was still a biggun, talking to a fireman later in the day they said at one point they had 22 appliances there, fire calls in the region were being answered by Greater Manchester appliances (well the fire alarm at an amusement place was). Was still smoking when we drove past again in the afternoon. Guess they were lucky it didn't spread.speedchick said:
Drove past this one at work yesterday, hubby saw it well alight at 4.45am, at 9am it was still a biggun, talking to a fireman later in the day they said at one point they had 22 appliances there, fire calls in the region were being answered by Greater Manchester appliances (well the fire alarm at an amusement place was). Was still smoking when we drove past again in the afternoon. Guess they were lucky it didn't spread.
yes yes the idea seems to be to let the rubbish all burn out while not letting it spread next door.Saves landfill and paying to export it
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/blaze-at-w...
Blaze at Street Fuel Ltd at Chatham Docks
13 December 2016
Firefighters spent more than five hours tackling a blaze inside a warehouse at Chatham Docks.
Crews were called to North Side Three Road, St Mary's Island, at 9.20pm last night after a recycling machine caught alight at Street Fuel Ltd.
The machine was connected to a 500 litre diesel tank and there was a danger the flames could spread.
A spokesman for Kent Fire and Rescue said: “The fire could have escalated, it was a big warehouse and it could have spread. We did a good job.”
"The machinery was completely destroyed so it was impossible to tell what had caused it."
Street Fuel Ltd fined £25,000 after worker sustains arm injuries while operating a baler machine.
Blaze at Street Fuel Ltd at Chatham Docks
13 December 2016
Firefighters spent more than five hours tackling a blaze inside a warehouse at Chatham Docks.
Crews were called to North Side Three Road, St Mary's Island, at 9.20pm last night after a recycling machine caught alight at Street Fuel Ltd.
The machine was connected to a 500 litre diesel tank and there was a danger the flames could spread.
A spokesman for Kent Fire and Rescue said: “The fire could have escalated, it was a big warehouse and it could have spread. We did a good job.”
"The machinery was completely destroyed so it was impossible to tell what had caused it."
Street Fuel Ltd fined £25,000 after worker sustains arm injuries while operating a baler machine.
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