Here at Kompakt, we understand that the world of recycling doesn’t revolve around what happens only in the UK. There is a vast network of nations who are keen to recycle, are constantly improving recycling machinery, infrastructure and laws and are keen to develop the activity for business and environmental reasons. In this blog, we…

As a business that sells, rents or leases recycling equipment, we understand that the need for our products is born from a human struggle with the sheer amount of waste that the inhabitants of this planet produce. It would be wrong to think that we’d want a world with more waste, when the truth couldn’t…

A plastic recycling company in Hampshire is now using one of our Mill Size Balers on a daily basis for baling rigid plastic. Not only will they create the best possible bale size, the ease of use means excellent efficiency and minimal expense. The Mill Size Baler is also very safe and following our onsite…

Okay, you’ve made a big decision to finally invest in a cardboard compactor, high-five from us! The decision makers may have sat around the big table and put forward the arguments for and against the purchase, rental or lease of such a machine. We can only imagine what some of these discussions might have been…

Hybrid cars are regarded as the environmentally friendly motoring option of the future, and are used by people who not only care for the planet, but are keen to test out emerging eco-friendly technologies. The aspect that makes hybrid cars environmentally friendly is the fact that they reduce carbon emissions, however, one issue that arises…

Want to become compliant? Are you obliged to meet a ‘duty of care’, under section 34 of the Environment Protection Act of 1990? Maybe you are, maybe you aren’t, maybe you have absolutely no idea and that’s how you’ve ended up reading this article. Are you unsure about the correlation between the number of employees…

The latest piece of Silicon Valley Recycling Machinery… As Apple released a new iPhone and iPad in March 2016, it also revealed a new masterpiece, to be known as Liam. It is a robot that has been programmed and designed in such a way that it can disintegrate iPhones and recover all the recyclable materials…

In the world of Corporate Social Responsibility, there are three Ps; People, Planet and Profit. They work in the same order, people come first. Staff In our domestic lives, recycling is a common day-to-day activity; we separate our plastics, cardboard and glass without really thinking about it. So when staff go to work, they expect…

…We were driving past an independent sofa company the other day and noticed their waste container overflowing with loose cardboard. We couldn’t understand the logic behind it; perhaps one of the employees would jump in and stamp it down, just so a few more boxes would fit in. That’s not a sustainable long term strategy….

What is an EWC Code? The EWC is the European Waste Catalogue, a detailed list of waste descriptions (EWC Codes) compiled by the EAUC, the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges. The EAUC is a not-for-profit charity who acted upon Commission Decision 2000/532/EC, which had the intention of creating the EWC in an attempt to…