£1.5m Ellesmere recycling plant investment boosts jobs

Up to 30 new jobs have been created after a £1.5 million investment at a recycling plant.

The Materials Recycling Facility at Tudor Griffiths Waste Services in Wood Lane, Ellesmere, has made the site the largest and most advanced of its kind in Shropshire, according to bosses.

The new 2,000 sq m facility recycles 90 per cent of waste brought into the site and reduces the amount sent to landfill.

Tudor Griffiths, managing director of the group, said it was a great opportunity for the town.

He said: "The TG Group's MRF is Shropshire's most progressive waste management facility and will rank alongside the very best in the country.

We believe this investment is good news for our company, local employment and the environment."

Tony Williams, general manager of TG Waste Services, said all new roles had now been filled and they had predominantly been filled by local people from the Wem, Whitchurch, Ellesmere, Shrewsbury and Telford areas.

The new facility has low energy lighting, an ergonomically designed picking station and a system to harvest rainfall from the plant's roof.

Other eco-features include using electricity generated from an on-site power plant using methane produced by the 10 per cent of waste material that is sent to landfill.

Bricks and rubble are crushed by the MRF and used on construction sites, wood is shredded and screened and used in chipboard manufacture and agricultural processes.

Part of the funding for the plant was awarded by WRAP, a Government-funded organisation aimed at recycling and reducing waste, which supplied £245,000 towards the plans.