Steve Oliver, Amberley Labels projects manager
Amberley Labels has been awarded a certificate for its Zero Labels to Landfill project, achieved by segregating the company’s label waste to ensure that 100% diversion from landfill is achieved.
Since August 2015 Amberley Labels has recycled a total of 303.3 metric tonnes of label waste, which would previously have gone to the landfill. The company has diverted over 10,000 tonnes of waste from landfill to a waste converter which can convert the labels waste into bio-mass fuels.
The Zero to Landfill project is intended to cut the 200,000 tonnes of matrix and production waste that is sent to landfill every year by UK label converters. The scheme was launched in April 2013 by BPIF labels, which, together with one of the major suppliers of self-adhesive material, commissioned Prismm Environmental to come up with alternative solutions for the disposal of waste. There are now over 50 converters involved.
The project has plans to focus on medium to large converters across the UK with the intention of making bigger inroads into the waste that is currently going to landfill.
