UK based glass recycling company Recresco has won two Welsh local county council contracts for kerbside collected glass into its Cwmbran depot.

The contracts will see the company reprocessing around 2,500 tonnes from Torfaen Borough Council and around 4,200 tonnes from Powys County Council per annum.

The commercial and residential collected bottle glass will be transported to the state of the art Cwmbran plant where it will be sorted and processed for end use at Torfaen based Knauf Insulation for the manufacture of high-quality fibreglass.

The contract with Cwmbran Borough Council is an extension of an already established 12-month agreement, whilst the Powys County Council contract was awarded following a successful tender process.

Headquartered in Nottingham and operating out of plants at Ellesmere Port and Cwmbran, Recresco is the largest glass recycler in Wales.

It has committed approximately £1.2 million to the site in recent years investing in state-of-the-art sorting and processing machinery upgrades.

The upgrade programme is thought to have increased output from the site by as much as 30%.

The company was awarded £50,000 by the Welsh Economic Futures grant in 2020 to support its continued development in the region.

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Image: Recresco Cwmbran was established in 2010 following a successful bid to supply Torfaen based Knauf Insulation with reprocessed glass.