Construction and commercial waste management specialist Rabbit Waste Management Ltd has more than halved the energy required to power its shredding line, resulting in cost savings of approximately £60,000 per year.

Rabbit Waste Management is no stranger to waste shredding. The skip hire firm diverts 75,000 tonnes of locally-collected C&I, C&D and wood waste from landfill each year, in favour of manufacturing an alternative fuel used to run its own 5MW Waste to Energy Enviropower plant.

The team previously used a diesel-driven mobile shredder to process infeed materials, but when this high-speed technology failed, the hunt for a safer, more environmentally-sound and profitable replacement began.