A group of VIPs joined staff at the Sustain recycling centre in Huncoat to celebrate a decade of helping to protect the environment.
Hyndburn MP Graham Jones was joined by Deputy Mayor Cllr Jean Harrison and a group of dignitaries to celebrate the centre’s 10th birthday.
Sustain, part of The Senator Group, the UK’s biggest manufacturer of office furniture takes redundant furniture and packaging from its own customers and recycles them to ensure nothing goes to landfill.
The purpose-built 15,000ft. recycling unit has recycled more than 270,000 items and diverted more than 7.5million kg of waste from landfill since establishing this business. This equates to an emissions saving of 8,790,798 Kg/CO2.
All furniture that comes into Sustain, based in Huncoat, is stripped into its component parts, wood, metal, plastic, fabrics and foam and is then processed by the Sustain team so they are either made into other items, are recycled or disposed of responsibly.
Senator also donates furniture to charitable and not-for-profit organisations. For example, in 2018, we donated tables and chairs to the Burnley FC’s Community Kitchen, which includes a foodbank, café, teaching kitchen and meeting space, to help support vulnerable people in the area.
Oli Clarke, Senator’s Strategic Business Projects Manager, said: “We were delighted that so many people were able to join us for Sustain’s 10th birthday celebration.
“Sustain is not only helping to protect the environment, it has become a sustainable business in its own right, providing work opportunities while providing a vital service to both customers and the wider community.
“Over the past decade, Sustain has become a zero to landfill entity we are still working on new ways to reduce our impact on the environment – both in terms of our manufacturing processes, our raw materials and in our supply chain.
“As a business, we have invested heavily in green technology and state-of-the-art production planning software to increase the yield of our raw materials.
“We also use state-of-the-art payload optimisation software and the latest “green” engines to ensure that our logistics operation has the minimal impact on the environment.
“All of our products are 100 per cent recyclable at the end of their working life, as is our waste packaging, so we are able to help customers with their own sustainability targets.
“Sustain is going from strength-to-strength and we’d like to thank everyone who helped to celebrate this landmark with us.”
