Category: Taylor

  • Why firms must help the public sector create social value

    Why firms must help the public sector create social value

    It wasn’t too long ago that local authorities and private sector companies operated in isolation. In the case of Taylor bins, a local authority would choose an appropriate product and we would manufacture it. It was very much a transactional, client-supplier relationship, and one that began in 1961 when Taylor first opened its doors. At…

  • Sustainable coating refurb revnue boost

    Sustainable coating refurb revnue boost

    The decision to swap paint for powder has changed the fortunes of Worcester-based container manufacturer Egbert Taylor, as the firm reports a revenue increase of 36 per cent across its refurbishment division over the last 12 months. In December 2019, Egbert Taylor announced that it would replace wet paint processes with carbon-free powder coating across…

  • Waste not, want not

    Waste not, want not

    By Adam Ramsay, Area Business Manager for Scotland at Egbert Taylor Imagine this scenario. You’re a waste manager at a local authority who, over the years, has seen the council partner with a number of contractors, all of which have had different livery and put their bins through different degrees of usage. The contractors have…

  • The Contamination Challenge

    The Contamination Challenge

    Back in 2010, when I first joined Egbert Taylor, the waste and recycling industry was completely new to me – I’d been in the fireplace sector for 14 years up until that point! Within a couple of years I was fully up to speed. However, I was amazed at the rate at which the sector…

  • EGBERT TAYLOR LAUNCHES ‘GREEN REWARDS’ SCHEME FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES

    EGBERT TAYLOR LAUNCHES ‘GREEN REWARDS’ SCHEME FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES

    Egbert Taylor is to introduce a new ‘Green Rewards’ scheme to promote the sustainable benefits of buying metal bins Made in Britain.   Many of Taylor’s competitors only assemble bins in the UK after importing materials from countries such as China, which creates high levels of carbon emissions, or refurbish bins using wet paint, which…

  • WASTE FIRM BACKS BRITISH AS PART OF GROWTH PLAN

    WASTE FIRM BACKS BRITISH AS PART OF GROWTH PLAN

    Total waste management company, Axil Integrated Services, has chosen UK manufacturer Egbert Taylor to build its latest order of HazPodTM products – a bespoke Taylor 1100L container equipped to collect and transport hazardous waste. The 40-unit order, which signals success for Axil despite the pandemic, follows the Corby-based firm’s commitment to growing its UK operation…

  • Contamination crackdown at South Ayrshire Council

    Contamination crackdown at South Ayrshire Council

    Egbert Taylor is playing its part in helping South Ayrshire Council to improve recycling levels after rolling out a series of measures across 1,200 of its 1,100L bins. The council has incorporated three Egbert Taylor solutions including the T-Lock, the Lid-in-Lid and aperture restrictor plate, all of which have been introduced to increase the quality…

  • Growing Global demand for Steel Bins sees UK manufacturer widen International net.

    Growing Global demand for Steel Bins sees UK manufacturer widen International net.

    Longstanding container manufacturer, Egbert Taylor, has revealed that its ‘Best of British’ message is continuing to gain traction overseas, after securing a number of projects in Saudi Arabia for its iconic Continental 1,100L, worth over £1,000,000. The Worcester-based firm has also recently received high value orders from India and Malaysia, as countries around the world…

  • Lifes a Peach on the Beach in Sunderland following a new plastic waste strategy

    Lifes a Peach on the Beach in Sunderland following a new plastic waste strategy

    Sunderland City Council has put the genie back in the plastic bottle following its decision to tackle plastic waste across its seafront areas via a partnership with container manufacturer and waste solutions provider, Egbert Taylor. The move, which has seen the council roll out specially designed 660L bins wrapped with engaging calls to action for…

  • The UK’s first Access Control Textile Bank

    The UK’s first Access Control Textile Bank

    Egbert Taylor with Nathan’s Wastesavers, one of the UK’s largest Textile recycling companies to become first UK business to offer Textile Bank with Access Control. The product, which was developed to help Nathan’s Wastesavers minimise problems with theft, contamination and fly-tipping across its customers’ fleet of textile banks, means that only those authorised to use…

  • North East England waste partnership restructures bring site recycling service with Egbert Taylor

    South Tyne and Wear Waste Management Partnership (STWWMP), which is responsible for delivering strategic waste management functions to almost 627,000 residents on behalf of Gateshead, South Tyneside, and Sunderland Councils, has reshaped its bring site recycling service in a move aimed at providing consistent recycling services to residents across all three local authorities. Previously, all…

  • Taylor Street Chosen by Cardiff

    Cardiff County Council has installed Taylor Street™ recycling units at three locations in the city, as part of its wider plan to improve recycling and achieve improved aesthetics of waste containers in public spaces. In total ten units have been installed across the city; two units have been placed by two of the city’s libraries,…