Tesco has renewed its contract with freight handler Norbert Dentressangle for the management of 12 Recycling Service Units (RSUs) throughout the UK and Ireland.
Established by Tesco in 1995, the RSU network handles all the loose equipment and packaging waste from more than 2,000 stores.
Items including trays, flower buckets and roll cages are collected by Tesco’s store delivery vehicles and delivered to the RSUs on the return leg. Returnable items are then processed for collection and re-used by Tesco and its suppliers.
In 2008, the RSUs contributed almost 80 per cent of the 400,000 tonnes of material recycled by Tesco in the UK, equivalent to 85 per cent of the total packaging that Tesco produced. This exceeded Tesco’s target of 80 per cent, helping towards its target to divert 95 per cent of store waste from landfill.
Norbert Dentressangle is responsible for activities within the RSUs including equipment washing, packaging waste baling and sorting equipment.
Employing around 800 people, the operation currently handles in excess of 225 million trays and flower buckets and recycles more than 300,000 tonnes of card and plastic each year.
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