Dig A Crusher helps WSR skip the waste stream
WSR Recycling purchase first Max X Tract density separator in the UK
To provide greater processing flexibility at their site in the North-West of England, WSR Recycling have recently purchased a newly-upgraded Dig A Crusher 1200 excavator-mounted bucket crusher attachment along with a Max X Tract density separator, the first of its type to be purchased in the UK.
Nick Prescott, managing director of WSR Recycling, commented: ‘We use the 1200 crusher at the start of a mini picking line. A lot of the C&D waste comes mixed with contaminated material that has to be removed if we are to recycle it commercially. Customers are very precise about Type 1 or 6F2 products. The Dig A Crusher 1200 crushes everything down to a 75mm product. The smaller, crushed product allows the magnet on the line to remove the rebar and metal, and the pickers to remove everything else.’
Although most of the material coming into the facility can be sorted and recycled, a certain amount of end product has traditionally remained awkward to process; the fines from the original picking line being one such product.
‘The small items that fall through the 40mm trommel screens are full of all sorts of contaminants. There is a lot of soil, mixed with glass, paper, soft plastic, stone and wood, often with a high organic content. This was so hard to sort it invariably ended up as landfill,’ Mr Prescott explained.
‘However, having been impressed with Dig A Crusher products before, we thought we'd have a look at the company’s new Max X Tract density separator.’
To put the machine through its paces, WSR set up a segregation line with a 12mm screen Doppstadt trommel feeding the Max X Tract. The trommel removed all the fines that were reclaimed for topsoil and subsoil. The remaining material was then fed into the Max X Tract by conveyor, which then removes all the paper and plastics from the heavier contaminates.
To provide greater processing flexibility at their site in the North-West of England, WSR Recycling have recently purchased a newly-upgraded Dig A Crusher 1200 excavator-mounted bucket crusher attachment along with a Max X Tract density separator, the first of its type to be purchased in the UK.
Nick Prescott, managing director of WSR Recycling, commented: ‘We use the 1200 crusher at the start of a mini picking line. A lot of the C&D waste comes mixed with contaminated material that has to be removed if we are to recycle it commercially. Customers are very precise about Type 1 or 6F2 products. The Dig A Crusher 1200 crushes everything down to a 75mm product. The smaller, crushed product allows the magnet on the line to remove the rebar and metal, and the pickers to remove everything else.’
Although most of the material coming into the facility can be sorted and recycled, a certain amount of end product has traditionally remained awkward to process; the fines from the original picking line being one such product.
‘The small items that fall through the 40mm trommel screens are full of all sorts of contaminants. There is a lot of soil, mixed with glass, paper, soft plastic, stone and wood, often with a high organic content. This was so hard to sort it invariably ended up as landfill,’ Mr Prescott explained.
‘However, having been impressed with Dig A Crusher products before, we thought we'd have a look at the company’s new Max X Tract density separator.’
To put the machine through its paces, WSR set up a segregation line with a 12mm screen Doppstadt trommel feeding the Max X Tract. The trommel removed all the fines that were reclaimed for topsoil and subsoil. The remaining material was then fed into the Max X Tract by conveyor, which then removes all the paper and plastics from the heavier contaminates.
