Game to solve waste problem
January 1st 2008

With demands for reductions on the amount of waste products being diverted to landfill, John Wade required some solutions to enable it to improve its skip waste sorting process.

The company turned to GAME Engineering for help. 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 holding storage skips for ease of movement.

The enclosure includes power and lighting and has 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 re-processing.

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 reprocessing.

Bruce Whitley, operations manager at John Wade, says "GAME designed and built a waste processing plant in keeping with the development plans of the John Wade Group at Aycliffe Quarry.

Their remit was to provide a system that would interface with existing waste processing equipment, to deal with the need for greater waste sorting and separation. The build quality was excellent and the whole installation was seamless."