A waste management firm is building a recycling facility - creating 25 jobs - after clearing an unsightly rubbish tip next to its headquarters.
Hartlepool company J&B Recycling will build the new plant on the land - increasing its capacity to accept and recycle thousands of tonnes of commercial and household packaging every year.
The firm is also celebrating a separate announcement that is has secured £7.5m investment from the Business Growth Fund (BGF), in a move that will create further jobs.
The family-run firm employs 175 staff at its waste transfer station in Middlesbrough and two recycling facilities in Hartlepool.
The new site was formerly a nine-metre high dumping ground operated by Easy Skips (NE) Ltd.
More than 36,000 cubic metres of waste had built up at the site - about the size of a football pitch - before J&B Recycling won the contract to clear the tip and expand its own operations.
Vikki Jackson Smith, managing director of J&B Recycling, said: “We are delighted to have now completely cleared this unsightly tip.
“It is a win-win situation for all as we have laid the foundations for our new facility to expand on our current business of recycling packaging and create jobs for local people.
“It means we can significantly increase our capacity for processing in a more efficient manner so we can become more competitive and attract more contracts to the area.”
The new facility will manage commercial and domestic waste, allowing more contracts to be tendered and increasing the levels of commercial waste, not only allowing more commercial waste to be recycled from the North-east but attracting contracts from within the UK for kerbside commingled to be sorted and recycled.
Vikki added: “As a waste management business, we need to set an example by driving forward efficiency in every aspect of our operations the investment into the extended site with the new building and infrastructure that we are currently developing will allow this to happen, maximising our assets and working to our full capacity.”
J&B Recycling recycles around 120,000 tonnes of waste each year from household, commercial, industrial and construction sources with customers including car parts manufacturer Nifco UK, Camerons Brewery and dozens of community buildings, pubs and restaurants.
The company is run by Vikki Jackson-Smith, who established the recycling business in 2000 to diversify from the solid fuel business that her father Alan Jackson had originally established in the 1970s.
Since then, the business has grown to an annual turnover of £10m.
J&B Recycling secured the BGF cash alongside Middlesbrough-based chemical company Chemoxy, in a £17.5m cash boost for Teesside.
The £2.5bn fund is backed by the UK’s five big banks - Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC, RBS and Standard Chartered.
Chemoxy secured £10m from the fund - and an additional £10m in working capital from the RBS bank.
It wants to make further investments in capital and plant over the next four years, expand its product and service range and double revenue to £100m by 2020.
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