UK-based environmental solutions provider Valpak has sold its materials recycling facility to JWS Lancashire supported by JWS Recycling Services (JWS).
The Preston facility was bought by Valpak's recycling arm Valpak Recycling North West in 2006, to provide additional services to members of its packaging compliance scheme.
The purchase was also aimed to increase the production of packaging recovery notes against any increases in packaging recycling targets.
Valpak chief executive Steve Gough said the company believes that the packaging targets set by the government out to 2017 will require both increases in participation by consumers and for industry to be able to extract more recycling out of streams going to landfill at present.
"We are delighted that we have been able to work with the newly formed business JWSL that has been specifically set up to secure a stream of 40,000 tonnes per annum of plastic rich material currently destined for landfill and to divert it to recycling or recovery markets," Gough said.
