24/10/2008
Nisa-Today’s
is to trial a free packaging waste collection service for its members from
January 2009, marking the group’s commitment to reducing its impact on the
environment and reducing costs for members.
The group
will trial the service for three months with 35 members in the North East that
receive chilled and frozen goods from Nisa-Today’s 625,000 sq ft warehouse in
Scunthorpe. It will see cardboard and shrink wrap packaging waste from
Nisa-Today’s product deliveries collected free of charge by the group’s lorry
fleet on a nominated day as part of scheduled return journeys to Scunthorpe,
where the packaging will then be bundled and sent for recycling.
John Sharpe, managing director of Central Distribution
Trading & Logistics at Nisa-Today’s said, “We are trialling this service to
save time and money for members - many of whom have small quantities of
packaging waste that is difficult to manage collections for - and drive further recycling volume from our
Scunthorpe warehouse. As a group we are also committed to reducing our impact
on the environment and this is one of the many methods we are exploring to do
so now and for the future.”
Nisa-Today’s
already recycles cardboard and shrink wrap from goods delivered to its
Scunthorpe, Harlow and Stoke-on-Trent operations, recycling almost 500 tonnes
across all operations in the past 12 months. Its delivery fleet is now fitted with
telematics, allowing the group to replay routes to ensure that the most
efficient journey times are undertaken, reducing wasted miles. The vehicles also
run on bio-diesel and have Euro 4 engines – currently the most efficient and
cleanest on the market – although Nisa-Today’s is currently exploring a number
of options for even more efficient deliveries, including teardrop trailers. In
addition, when launched in October 2005, the group’s ambient warehouse in Scunthorpe was the first site in the county to adopt
and operate a Green Travel Plan.
