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Celtic Recycling relocated to its current Bridgend site in February 1993. A major investment over a four year period resulted in the provision of state-of-the-art facilities for the disposal, processing and recycling of end-of-life heavy electrical equipment. Ongoing investment in the facility has ensured that Celtic Recycling continue to be the market leader in the management of these waste resources.
All plant items considered hazardous or difficult are transported by Celtic Recycling to the Bridgend facility, where the environmental protection measures and controls greatly exceed those required under current environmental legislation.
Environmental safeguards include:
- Fully-contained site perimeter drainage.
- High risk area bunding.
- Contiguous, inter-linked heavy-duty steel containment bays in the PCB-processing area.
- Oversized oil interceptors – with almost twice the capacity for emergency spillage containment required by legislation.
- High-grade, virtually impervious micro-silica concrete slab construction.
- And were this not enough – the entire site is supported upon a heavy duty geo-membrane which completely underlies the site to provide an impermeable seal
Current process facilities on site include:
- An on-site twin-chamber incinerator which can process difficult wastes such as oil or bitumen-contaminated equipment, which is linked to state-of-the-art computer data loggers to monitor and record operating temperatures and stack emission levels.
- ‘Draigufel’ PCB-decontamination equipment for processing PCB-contaminated insulating oil, supported by an in-house laboratory equipped with a gas chromatography unit.
- Solvent wash processing to remove PCB from solid wastes, ably serviced by recently installed electric overhead cranes.
- SF6 storage, recovery and test facilities.
- Bulk oil storage capability for contaminated or non-contaminated oils.
- Numerous lift facilities up to 60 tonnes capacity.
- Modern materials handling equipment and processing methods for non-contaminated plant and equipment.
In addition to the main entrance which is equipped with a 50 tonne capacity weighbridge, the facility also benefits from a dedicated abnormal load entrance which is capable of receiving the largest vehicles and loads able to travel on the UK’s highways today. Transformers and other capital assets up to 110 tonnes in weight are routinely offloaded in the dedicated heavy off-load area utilising the company’s in-house bespoke jacking and winching system.
The Celtic Recycling Bridgend site is the only UK site licensed to receive and process all types of electrical equipment, including plant contaminated with hazardous wastes such as mercury, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and SF6 (sulphur hexafluoride).
Live-site Dismantling and Demolition Service
Abnormal Load Movements
Specialist Plant and Transport
PCB Disposal and Decontamination
Hazardous Waste Management
SF6 Gas Recovery and Disposal
Oil Recycling
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