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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedMaking shipping fruit more eco-friendly.(News and Installations)
Food Trade Review, April, 2008
Portsmouth company MMD (Shipping Services), one of the country's largest importers of exotic fruit, is now recycling thousands of cardboard boxes and wooden pallets every week with the help of ACM Waste Management.
ACM has supplied MMD with a mill-sized baler, which has enabled the company to store its waste cardboard much more efficiently until it can be collected for recycling.
Ian Rolland of MMD Shipping said: "The baler has made a huge difference. We literally have thousands and thousands of waste cardboard boxes coming into our premises every week and this has created a big problem because of the amount of space they take up, plus the impact on the environment."
'But since the installation of the baler this area is much tidier and...
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