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Bayliss Recovery Ltd:

Company Profile

Bayliss Recovery Ltd is a vehicle and metal recycling company operating in South Wales. It was founded over 15 years ago by Howard Bayliss with one truck.  The company now employs 44 people, and has a fleet of 17 vehicles with an annual turnover of £2.5 million.

Environmental Achievements

  • Uses a low energy process to engineer waste tyres, a problem material, into a material used for land development - flood defences, riverbank erosion, soft road foundations, slope stabilisation and more
  • Uses between 94% and 98% less energy than alternative recovery/disposal methods
  • Disposal of tyres originally cost the company £52k per year as part of the vehicle recovery process, but now generates a considerable income from the baling process
 Sponsers - ARENA Network gratefully acknowledges the support it has received for its Awards from its sponsers Green Dragon Welsh Assembly Government Carbon Trust Countryside Council for Wales Environment Agency Envirowise European Union Objective 1 and 2Wrap L'OrealWelsh Health Estates Severnside Recycling