Recycling Equipment In The Name Of Beer! It all starts in a microbrewery in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales… The characters and James Beavan and Rob Faulkner, two men who have spent the majority of their working lives working in the alcohol industry. The name of their microbrewery is Tenby Brewing Company, and it has recently been…
British are the most wasteful It’s not a huge surprise to discover that the UK wastes over 20% more food than the EU average, positioning us right at the bottom of the rankings. The time is now to tackle food waste, through educating and improving our purchasing culture, ending our throwaway behaviour and creating a…
Massive Machinery: Part 4 Science Edition! Over the course of this series, we’ve looked at all kinds of ridiculous machinery, from giant drills to super-sized dump trucks. In the fourth part of this series, we look at three giant pieces of machinery that we have the world of science to thank for! Whether you have or…
UK Charity Recycling Equipment Into 3D Printers UK Charity Techfortrade is doing something quite astounding and massively pivotal to the circular economy, the e-waste issue and technology in the emerging world. They are trying to develop software that allows for a process of recycling equipment, such as e-waste components, into 3D printers, which in turn,…
Kompakt UK are very pleased to introduce Benjamin Gray… Would you like to introduce yourself, your team and MeArm? I’m Benjamin Gray, I founded MeArm Robotics. We currently have three employees; myself, Christian Fraser-Williams and Jiaxing Lu. MeArm is a company that makes small educational robots out of acrylic sheet. What’s the history of MeArm?…
Massive Machinery: Part 3 Here at Kompakt we sell small, medium and large bits of recycling machinery, but what we call large machinery, others might disagree. Those others are likely to be aware of some of the massive bits of machinery that are dotted around the world. In this series, we will take a look…
What if a recycling machine could pay you for your plastic bottles with the help of a smartphone app? What if the app could arrange for the collection of the materials? Well, you’d have a pretty good deal there then, we fancy. This is becoming a reality in Beijing, where the current system involves private…
Argos to pay out vouchers in exchange for obsolete mobile phones Recycling equipment like mobile phones and tablets is a fundamental part of their life process. Whether that means they are repaired, polished up and sent to an emerging nation as a refurbished model, or they are stripped down for parts, making sure old devices…
Massive Machinery: Part 2 Here at Kompakt we sell small, medium and large bits of recycling machinery, but what we call large machinery, others might disagree. Those others are likely to be aware of some of the massive bits of machinery that are dotted around the world. In this series, we will take a look…
Gift Your Gear… The simple act of donating and recycling equipment once it has been used is an age-old community idea. For centuries people have ‘helped thy neighbour’, and now one UK re-use project can claim to be the proud owners of a Gold Award at the recent OutDoor 2015 European Trade Show in Germany….