Materials Processing Ltd are solid waste recovery experts based in the upper North Island regions of Northland, Bay of Plenty and Waikato.
The company carries out a major part of its work at the Kawerau and Kinleith Pulp & Paper mills where it recovers wood waste material that was previously going to industrial landfills. The company's portable grinding unit converts the waste into fuel for the cogeneration boilers at Kinleith.
In Rotorua, the company has a long-term contract with the District Council to handle all their recycling. It processes all the domestic green waste and all the wood waste heading to the landfill, as well as concrete and aggregates, plastics, cardboard and scrap steel. A public drop-off centre is based close to the city centre, providing free recycling plus the "Urban Ore" reuse shop.
MPL has recently won the contract to run a similar operation in Tokoroa.
Our retail site in Mangawhai Heads sells landscape products and offers a recycling facility. Cardboard, paper, plastic bottles, bags and film, steel and aluminium cans, scrap metal, wood and green waste, concrete, and rubbish bags for transfer are all accepted. Many of the MPL end-products are available at the Mangawhai Heads site as landscape products such as mulch, compost, aggregates and pavers made from recycled concrete.
A new site is currently under development in Whangarei which will process the green waste received at the Re Sort depot and convert it to pure organic compost which will be available to the public, agricultural and horticultural sectors.
The company also has a portable concrete crushing plant that operates throughout the region, crushing waste concrete into specification aggregates which are used for roading, drainage meduim, or builders mix.
Staff in the company are passionate conservationists. Staff turnover is low, and new opportunities are continually being identified so the work is varied and challenging.
Recycling is recognised as a very viable alternative means of waste disposal to landfills, and has unlimited potential to value add.