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Waste Recycling LtdMytum&Selby

Phone: 01977 683570Fax: 01977 681708

Email: enquiries@mytumwaste.com

Mytum & Selby Waste Recycling LtdMill Cross Quarry, Garden Lane,

Sherburn In Elmet, Leeds, LS25 6AT

www.mytumwasterecycling.com

companyphilosophyContentsWelcome

In the early 1980’s, David Carrie began building his

own business, born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire he

worked in the scrap metal market. He soon became

a dedicated expert within the recycling trade. By the

mid 80’s David and his family established Selby

Metals, a site just short of 1 acre. It soon became

an acclaimed business in the Yorkshire area.

In 1987, David purchased a new facility in Sherburn

In Elmet, a well known site owned and operated by

Charlie Mytum. The facility had been developed

since 1902 and was run and operated as a Waste

and Scrap Yard since 1948. A sale was agreed and

Mytum & Selby was born. Predominantly operated

as a Metal Recycling Facility. The site under went

many changes. Offices replaced the railway shed, a

weighbridge was installed and the first layer of

concrete was laid. Up to 1992 the facility had been

regenerated and upgraded to form a 6 acre Metal

Facility.

New legislation with the handling of waste came

into force in 1992 by the Environment Agency.

The facility was designed and a license built to offer

Waste Recycling and Waste Reduction. By 1998

the facility was handling 50’000 tons, with a license

that covered: hazardous, municipal, household,

commercial and industrial waste, the site now

covered 10 acres.

Mytum & Selby have invested and evolved along

with new legislation and Environmental Regulating.

Still offering traditional business and quality service.

The progress from 1987 has formed what stands

today. A facility that is licensed to deal with 125’000

tons of waste, offering environmental services,

operating a fully functional MRF that offers high

recycling rates and now deals with some of today

major industrial giants. Still owned and operated

entirely by the Carrie family and built without debt.

The facility is now at the forefront of todays recycling

sector.

Company philosophy 03In the beginning 05Waste 07Scrap 08Recycling 10Hazardous waste 11Site services 12Containers 13Consultancy 14University of Hull 18Future progress 19Maltings site 20Goole site 21Hull site 22

Company philosophy

Mytum & Selby’s main core values are recycling and

reuse and looking at waste as possible

replacements for raw material. Using both materials

which can be recycled and the end residues to

generate fuels, heat, power etc.

Zero landfill is key to a carbon reduced future, not

just by saving landfill emissions but by reducing the

dependency on fossil fuels. A balance needs to be

made when using waste to generate power. Direct

incineration could lead to the loss of valuable waste

materials without the pre-processing of waste.

An ongoing commitment to recycling and the

search for alternative transport infrastructure has

enabled the company to grow dramatically over the

years, whilst also offering competitive prices. Many

customers turn to Mytum & Selby for advice and

opinions within the industry, this has been earned

over the years, along with good working

relationships and long-term contracts.

Mytum & Selby Waste Recycling 20093

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In the beginning

Charlie Mytum, founder of C.Mytum, mid 1900’s

David Carrie,founder of Selby Metals, early 1980’s

Mytum & Selby is born and the business grows

Services and operations grow at Mytum & SelbyThe 6 acre facility, 1994 The facility and fleet expand, early 1990’s

C.Mytum and Selby Metals begin to establish theirbusiness relationship, mid 1980’s

Construction of the first facility for David Carrie, early 1980’s

David Carrie acquires C.Mytum, construction begins, late 1980’s

companyphilosophyScrap

During the early 1980’s the Carrie family started

business within the metals industry, one of the first

forms of recycling.

Selby Metals worked to the best advantage with the

metals collected, using techniques such as heat

cutting, large guillotines, bailers, grapples and

magnets, the metals were re-sized or broken down

into their individual components and prepared for

re-sale.

Mytum & Selby have maintained a healthy presence

in the metal industry and have invested into various

technologies to deal with bulk metal buying and

processing. Large amounts of metals are still

sourced and dealt with at the Sherburn facility being

traded with some of the largest metal refinery’s in

the world.

The traditional buying and trading of metals is still a

very live aspect of the site.

Waste

Mytum & Selby have always admired waste as a

potential resource, even back in the early days the

key part of the business was reuse and recycle.

The idea of bringing a mixed waste product onto

site via a container and finding some form of use for

the items within the waste stream was adopted

fairly quickly. Initially this was done by using

products for construction on-site and reducing the

landfill residue. The site soon began to develop new

ways of re-using and recycling products.

The facility has run on wood fuels for many years,

adapted to convert waste oils brought onto site into

a heating fuel. The idea of energy from waste had

not been fully thought of at this point.

Mytum & Selby are the original waste recyclers,

developing their business, licenses and site to make

best use of waste rather than just transport it to a

hole in the ground. In the past; this was never

thought of as a way forward, “waste” was a dirty

word! But today its opened up to become a

business, resource and way of life for much of the

world. Mytum & Selby’s foresight was not too far off

the aim.

The main depot is equipped with a full MRF facility,

industrial shredding, compaction and bailing, lifting

and loading, segregation and separation. All of

which plays a major part in dealing with the wastes

arising and making sure that minimal waste is sent

to landfill.

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Waste is to be looked on as a commodity, burning and destroying waste is worse than

sending it landfill, as it destroys the recourses of the future. David Carrie, Director.“

“

companyphilosophyRecycling

As the Carrie family took the natural progression

into waste management, waste was not thought of

as a big concern in the 1980’s. Other companies

were seen to run a waste transport business and

dispose directly to landfill. Mytum & Selby had a

different view, owning one of the first licensed

transfer stations gave them enough space and

capability to reuse and reduce waste materials.

From the very early days it was clear that re-use and

waste to landfill reduction was not only a good

business but foresight would see the world change

its views on recycling. The Carrie family had already

embraced environmental issues and adopted a re-

use and recycle culture within its business over 20

years ago.

Today is testament to this as the company have

invested heavily into recycling techniques and

infrastructure. All waste types brought into the site

have some form of treatment or pre-treatment to

reduce and recycle and form minimal waste to

landfill.

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The simplest techniques often produce the greatest results, seeing waste as a form of

future resource and giving value to the material collected, has built a solid and stable

platform from which to move forward. Steven Carrie, Managing Director.“

“

companyphilosophySite servicesHazardous waste

Mytum & Selby have always dealt with hazardous or

difficult waste streams.

Collecting mixed household and industrial material

are a daily occurrence on-site.

Environmental protection and pollution controls

placed new permitting and licensing regulations.

The Environment Agency was adapted to help

businesses and waste collectors handle and

dispose of hazardous waste more effectively.

Infrastructure and handling criteria were put in place

as pollution prevention methods, this entailed

concrete, drainage, segregation, monitoring and

general site inspection. Again, although this only

formed a small part of the business and the

hazardous materials dealt with on-site would be

dealt with from a mixed waste load. The Carrie

family saw this as a potential area of business and

one that would benefit their future. Over the first

years of the Environment Agency taking over the

licensing duties of local councils, Mytum & Selby

worked closely with the new authority adopting

recommended techniques, systems and upgrading

infrastructure.

Today the company have a small but dedicated

Hazardous and Difficult waste sector, this is used

firstly as a part of their full one stop shop service to

their customers and then for clients such as

councils and other large waste companies, anything

from fly tipped material to large consignments of

material. Trained and dedicated personnel offer full

on-site support, maintaining legal responsibilities of

the company and clients while offering expert advise

and employing best practice.

Mytum & Selby have predominantly based their

business around the industrial sector. When the

Carrie family dealt solely with metals they did so by

offering a full one stop service.

Full demolition and scrap metal removal took place

by various methods including hot work, plasma and

heavy machine cutting. A hard working team dealt

with large and bulky loads and heavy lifting work.

A similar approach was taken in the waste

business. Clients required a company to take care

of their entire waste needs and remove the

headache from the ever changing Environmental

Legislation. Mytum & Selby embraced the new

licensing laws and invested in infrastructure, they

could provide a service all under one roof.

New challenges presented themselves, customers

needs became independent, leading Mytum &

Selby to provide a bespoke service, a complete

environmental and recycling system on our

customers site’s as well as Mytum & Selby’s.

Some of the services provided are litter picking,

small clearances, complete demolition or build and

installation of waste infrastructure, site compliancy

to staff training, a skip or disposal of thousands of

tons of waste, street cleaning to oil spills or an entire

waste and environmental service, Mytum & Selby

have it covered both on and off site without the

need for any contractors.

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companyphilosophyConsultancy & TrainingContainers

Mytum & Selby offer interactive training sessions

based around your site, your employees and your

waste, involving staff and engaging them in practical

exercises equipping them with skills they can apply

in the daily workplace.

The biggest challenge facing companies when

moving towards more sustainable business practices

is communicating these changes to employees and

helping them to embrace the key components of

new or existing environmental improvements.

Equipping your employees with the awareness they

need to make good environmental decisions and

take into consideration the consequences of bad

practice is essential when trying to move towards or

maintain sustainable waste management on site.

Mytum & Selby can also provide waste audits,

looking at each of your waste streams and how they

are currently contained and managed right through

to their final destination. Aiming to identify areas

where cost savings and/or environmental

improvements could be made and ensure your

company is up to speed and in-compliance with all

current UK legislation.

A site inspection can be conducted to pick up on

any non-conformances and then maintain your site’s

compliance with relative legislation, working

alongside the principals of an Environment Agency

site inspection report. This type of report can be

used for environmental reporting purposes and/or

when working towards and/or maintaining ISO

standards such as ISO14001.

Mytum & Selby work with their customers needs in

mind and can provide bespoke requirements.

For over 18 years Mytum & Selby have designed

and manufactured their own waste containers,

machinery and one off storage solutions. Simple

8yd to 40yd skips are made from either food grade

chrome steel or hard wearing steel depending on

customer needs, these are sprayed on-site and

have regular maintenance checks. They are

constantly cleaned and repainted, ensuring you

have a usable safe container that does not look

unsightly.

Having the capability to build our own containers

also add flexibility for our customers, some may

require an individual container to fit into an awkward

place or do a specific job, this in-house system

allows Mytum & Selby to respond rapidly and offer a

total storage and collection service.

Containers include, recycling banks, battery

containers, hazardous cabs, decanting systems,

liquid storage, site lockups, chemcabs, 8-40yd

open and enclosed wheeled bins from 100ltr to

1100ltr, tipping skips etc.

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The vast majority of prosecutions that the agency takes against environmental offenders are as a result of avoidable pollution

incidents or lack of staff awareness. Business should have in place effective environmental management systems and

ensure their staff are properly trained. The Environment Agency, Spotlight on Business Report.“

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Mytum & Selby Waste Recycling turned towards YHE to assist with

designing and manufacturingmachinery for one of their sites

(The Maltings). With the oldinfrastructure already in place, YHE are working to adapt and

re-construct with new bespoke parts.

Unit, work in progress The Maltings, South Milford

companyphilosophyThe Environmental Technologies Centre of Industrial

Collaborations (ETCIC) is a part of the University of

Hull and was established in 2004 with the help of

Yorkshire Forward funding. ETCIC leads, facilitates

and participates in collaborations between industry,

academia and public bodies to deliver real,

sustainable and quantifiable added value.

ETCIC’s Centre Director and inaugural Yorkshire

Post Green Champion, Professor Lynne Frostick first

met with Mytum and Selby at a conference in the

summer of 2005. Subsequent to this funding for a

Knowledge Transfer Partnership programme was

achieved and allowed Mytum and Selby to

determine the technical feasibility of an in-vessel

composting system on the Maltings site.

Subsequent work has involved ETCIC microbiology

expert, Dr. John Adams in assessing the potential

impact of bioaerosols from the plant on the local

vicinity and more recently in determining the

regulatory issues in processing Animal By Products

and achieving the ABPR approval for the Maltings

site. ETCIC has also supported Mytum and Selby in

planning discussions with the local authorities and in

technology assessment of other waste processing

options. Most recently this involved an assessment

of the feasibility of the waste to ethanol project.

Dr. David Calvert, Commercial manager of ETCIC,

stated “The processing of waste is increasing in

importance and innovative companies such as

Mytum and Selby have a key role to play in

establishing new sustainable processes for our

waste. We look forward to working with them on all

four of their sites in the future and also in

establishing a centre of excellence for waste

processing on their site”

University of Hull

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companyphilosophyMaltings siteFuture progress

Mytum & Selby have evolved within the waste

recycling industry for over 20 years and in this time

they have seen many changes.

The need for new technologies and the requirement

for land to develop and expand within the ever

changing and ever growing waste management

network. Most people turned their attention to

technologies, Mytum and Selby turned to looking

for the land to enable them to expand their business

further.

Technologies will change and new ones will take

place in the bid to turn waste into a product, energy

or fuel. As technologies advance others will become

more obsolete and some will struggle to compete,

but the one thing they will all require is land and

feedstock.

Mytum & Selby have acquired land and gained

planning permissions on sites large enough to

operate their MRF’s and Transfer Stations, ensuring

feed stocks of waste and an operational business,

whilst also holding back 50% of the land to attract

technology partners. Ensuring that the operations

are all on one facility and can be managed and

adapted to suit the area and waste types. Whilst

one facility has adopted organic and bio-degradable

processing an other will adopt EFW and

gasification.

The search for land for this kind of expansion also

opened up the need for alternative transports

systems and although all the facilties have been

sourced with the major motorway network of

Yorkshire easily accessed all the facilities have

alternatives such as rail, docks and river.

The Maltings site was acquired in 2004 with the

views of Organic and Food waste processing in

mind. The former John Smiths site which has stood

for over 130 years was chosen due to the former

application, location, rail infrastructure and the

remaining buildings and machinery.

A Certificate of Lawful Use was granted in 2008

which covers the use of the site and buildings to

treat all organic and bio-degradable liquids and

solids within the confines of the standing

infrastructure. The Certificate has no further

restrictions of either tonnages or vehicles and at 11

acre the site is large enough to deal with a large

quantity of material. It has the capability to be the

largest licensed Organic Treatment facility in the UK.

The first system to be utilised on-site is in-vessel

aerobic composting, this will see some of the many

internal vessels used to treat CAT3 ABP waste and

produce a PAS100 compost product. 3 stages will

see 25’000 tons per annum reaching 75’000 tons

per annum within the first 18 months.

Anaerobic digestion is also being researched and a

technology capable of converting 400’000 tons of

food waste into ethanol is now being planned.

De-packaging system plans are being drawn up to

go on the front end to deal with mixed and

packaged material, this should see all food

materials being handled from start to finish with

complete zero landfill.

Recycling Efficiency Yorkshire and ETCIC of Hull

University are heavily involved with this project, a

Centre of Excellence and training school will be

operated on-site with support from both parties.

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One of the missing links in the waste industry has always been land, the best technology in the world

is useless without somewhere to put it and something to feed it. Steven Carrie, Managing Director. “

“

companyphilosophyHull siteGoole site

The facility in Goole is a former landfill and was used

during the 80’s for depositing the inert material

when building the key side and docks area by ABP.

The site measuring 5.9 hectares was granted

planning permission in 2007 by East Ridings

Council for a MRF, transfer station and hazardous

waste facility, this will begin construction shortly.

The facility will have at least 50% for future build and

technologies and provides a major recycling hub for

the area.

The adjacent docking area and container port will

provide a greater transport network and allow

access to direct import and export markets of both

product and waste materials.

The former landfill is set to be recycled and the

majority of the material used in the construction of

the MRF. This will be a first for the UK and a positive

alternative to landfilled material. The nearby

industrial area is expanding with some of the major

industrial names now setting up to join the well

established industrial and commercial area of

Goole. A site such as this is to provide a much

needed facility for the business area and even local

councils.

Further technologies will be added to site and could

include EFW or even manufacture from recycled

products. Plastic washing and extruding is being

looked into.

Image of planned overview.

Formerly known has ‘Recketts’ or ‘Holliday

Pigments’. The Hull site is our recent addition and

one that has great value for today and tomorrows

waste requirements. The site was used to make

ultra marine pigment and has a history of dealing

with vast amounts of chemicals and running under

IPPC. The site had 3 acres of kilns which ran at

temperatures over 1000 degree’s celsius and has

the largest chimney structure in the area with a

stack reaching 141m high. In the past 20 years the

site was adapted to reduce its stack emissions and

an £11million FGD plant was built on-site to

accompany the 141m stack, this was opened by

John Prescott.

The 11 acre facility is to be constructed to allow for

MRF and Waste Transfer operations to take place

and attract potential EFW partners that can use

thermal treatment/gasification in conjunction with

existing stack and former use, having the capacity

to handle large volumes of waste and achieve zero

landfill for large industrial concerns and local

councils or waste partners.

The site also benefits to having direct access to the

River Hull for potential Wharfage, this is hoped to be

established shortly. The large offices, on-site labs

and extensive conference rooms will form a large

main base and full Centre of E xcellence and training

establishment.

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