Resurgent Port of Sunderland

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Bakerlooline

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Yet more hugely positive news from the Port on the back of the Brineflow and Wastefront developments...
Norwegian firm Quantafuel wants to build new recycling plant at Port of Sunderland creating hundreds of jobs
or if you don't like the Echo site...
Major jobs hope as Quantafuel unveils Port of Sunderland recycling factory plans - North East Times Magazine

One more big development also in planning at the moment and a new regional HQ for one of the world's biggest shipping companies about to be announced!
 


We need to sort out our recycling first here. It's an absolute joke.
How it hasn't been made uniform across the country is beyond me. Why is it that I live 5 minutes away from people who can recycle yoghurt pots in their area, and yet we can't.

Putting "widely recycled" on packaging is just confusing. People are lazy and won't check which means it'll go in and then can't be recycled - risking the entire load of stuff in the wagon, or they'll just hoy it in the bin and it goes to landfill.
 
Keawyeds said:
We need to sort out our recycling first here. It's an absolute joke.
How it hasn't been made uniform across the country is beyond me. Why is it that I live 5 minutes away from people who can recycle yoghurt pots in their area, and yet we can't.

Putting "widely recycled" on packaging is just confusing. People are lazy and won't check which means it'll go in and then can't be recycled - risking the entire load of stuff in the wagon, or they'll just hoy it in the bin and it goes to landfill.
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We aren’t allowed to put glass in our recycling bin, how f***ing backward is that?
 
Keawyeds said:
We need to sort out our recycling first here. It's an absolute joke.
How it hasn't been made uniform across the country is beyond me. Why is it that I live 5 minutes away from people who can recycle yoghurt pots in their area, and yet we can't.

Putting "widely recycled" on packaging is just confusing. People are lazy and won't check which means it'll go in and then can't be recycled - risking the entire load of stuff in the wagon, or they'll just hoy it in the bin and it goes to landfill.
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If manufacturers did more we wouldn’t need to.
 
joemcdokes said:
It costs a lot of money infrastructure wise, that won’t help.
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There are companies putting money into recycling now though. Boots have teamed up with Terracycle I think. They are putting up boxes in store to take recyclable tubes and tubs etc which previously might have ended up in landfill.
 
Once they finish the Sunderland SSTC3 (road on the south side of the Spire Bridge) it'll be interesting to see how viable the port becomes with such direct links.

The whole thing was basically designed to make a straight road from Nissan to the port.
 
a1970man said:
The whole thing was basically designed to make a straight road from Nissan to the port.
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no it wasn’t. This was a conclusion jumped to by the Sunderland Echo and became a self perpetuating myth. SSTC3 is designed to make it quicker and easier to get to Sunderland City Centre f4om the A19. You will see, in fact, that the scheme no longer even extends to the Port.
 
Bakerlooline said:
no it wasn’t. This was a conclusion jumped to by the Sunderland Echo and became a self perpetuating myth. SSTC3 is designed to make it quicker and easier to get to Sunderland City Centre f4om the A19. You will see, in fact, that the scheme no longer even extends to the Port.
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There's an element of truth to it as parts of the roads were designed to ensure wagons from Nissan were able to use them. I've mentioned before that Nissan in the past have considered using the port and even had trails there.
 
Falconhoof said:
There's an element of truth to it as parts of the roads were designed to ensure wagons from Nissan were able to use them. I've mentioned before that Nissan in the past have considered using the port and even had trails there.
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The only truth in it, is that the new road was designed to be very HGV friendly and it will be. Nissan have had trials in the past, that is correct. Port of Sunderland is busy with many other profitable things now, priorities change.
 
Keawyeds said:
Such as? I agree to a point, but there's a lot we can do as a society and at government/council level to recycle a shitload more than we do.
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Where I work we don’t recycle anything as the company will have to pay to get it collected with it being classed as commercial so we put everything that I recycle at home in the bin at work.
ive started bringing stuff home that I use as I think it’s wrong but it’s a cost that the company won’t take on
 
Bakerlooline said:
Yet more hugely positive news from the Port on the back of the Brineflow and Wastefront developments...
Norwegian firm Quantafuel wants to build new recycling plant at Port of Sunderland creating hundreds of jobs
or if you don't like the Echo site...
Major jobs hope as Quantafuel unveils Port of Sunderland recycling factory plans - North East Times Magazine

One more big development also in planning at the moment and a new regional HQ for one of the world's biggest shipping companies about to be announced!
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Creating high-value products from low-value plastic waste sounds like a dodgy pyramid-type money making scheme but there's obviously earning potential in it somewhere.
 

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