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collection tecHnology Best Retail Recycling Initiative: Award night: Over 850 guests were on hand at the November 15 ceremony to see who would win the various NRA categories for the year. The aim of the NRA program, first established eight years ago by Materials Recycling Week (the UK’s leading magazine for the waste and recycling industries), is to recognize innovation and excellence in recycling in the UK. Pictured here are (from left) bob Mills, british comedian and entertainer (ceremony MC); Andy Doran, National Manager of Novelis (award sponsor); Andrew Duckworth, Tesco Senior buyer in charge of waste and recycling; and Jane Rayner, Group Editor, Emap Environmental Group (award program organizer). 6 Tesco has received the UK's National Recycling Award for the category best Retail Recycling Initiative of the Year for implementing a groundbreaking new way to help increase the amount of recycling in the UK: TOMRA’s new automated outdoor recycling center platform.
TRC Number One: The first of the 100 TOMRA automated recycling centers ordered by Tesco, located at the Tesco supermarket (brookfield Centre) in Cheshunt, UK. a world first The TOMRA automated recycling center being implemented by Tesco is the first of its kind in the world, offering consumers the opportunity to place all their household recyclable packaging in one receptacle instead of manually sorting into different bins. The center’s hightech material recognition technology ensures quick and accurate identification of beverage and household product containers of made of plastic, metals and glass. After the objects are identified, they are dropped into a conveyor that transports them to their assigned storage bin. before going into the storage bins, all plastic, glass and aluminum containers are first compacted. This makes it possible to store large quantities of materials in the bins before they need to be emptied. Plastics and aluminum objects are granulated, reducing their volume by about 15 to 1; glass bottles are crushed, reducing their volume by three to one. The configuration being implemented by Tesco can typically hold 20,000 plastic containers, 35,000 aluminum cans, 10,000 glass bottles, 2,000 tins and steel cans, and two tons of paper and cardboard. further, the center automatically sends an alert when it needs to be emptied, cleaned or otherwise serviced. 7
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