Wembley Arena: Feb 2010

Wembley Arena have been working with DJB recycling and Recoup to introduce an audience recycling scheme and improve their back of house recycling.

The scheme part funded by Coca Cola has seen audience recycling points set up across the concourse and recycling company DJB provide a regular recycling service. DJB then give Wembley a rebate for the recycling they segregate. This has seen recycling levels jump to 50% when the scheme was introduced in August, improving to 65% in September and a massive 82% by the end of October, meaning they only need to empty their general waste compactor every few months. This has also realised an estimated year on year saving of 35%.

New Covent Garden Market

In November of 2009 DJB Recycling supplied New Covent Garden Market with what is thought to be the first ever "Pay As You Throw" (PAYT) system for any wholesale market in the UK, for the waste disposal at the 57 acre site in Nine Elms Lane, London.

The (PAYT) scheme was introduced by issuing all tenants with their own wheelie bins and recycling containers for first line segregation with disposal charges to suit via an independent weighing system.

The system also included a municipal reclamation facility (MRF) enabling market staff to segregate more recyclable products from the waste stream aiding New Covent Garden Market in it's aim to achieve zero waste to landfill.

Organic waste is then sent to on-farm composting facilities and pig feed production, cardboard and all grades of plastic is baled and collected by our re-processors for revenue.

A spokesman for New Covent Garden Market said,

"We knew of DJB Recycling as we have had equipment from them in the past and always had a great service from them, so we decided to contact them with regards to the PAYT project."

"DJB took on the role of project managers throughout and delivered an excellent service and are still working with us to date in our aim to achieve zero landfill"

"Since installing the system we have seen our recycling rise by 20% and our landfill disposal drop by 35%"