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From an offcut on the floor to gypsum in a bag.
Six steps. The same mineral at the start and the end. Scroll through.
1On the wall
A sheet is cut to fit. The offcut hits the floor.
Every house, office fit-out and renovation produces offcuts — builders’ rule of thumb is 5–20% of the board ordered. Pulled out of a mixed skip later, it’s rubbish. Kept aside now, it’s a resource.source
2Into the bin
Through the side panel, at waist height.
The panel lifts, the sheet slides in, the panel shuts. The roof keeps the rain off and the solid door keeps everything else out. Nothing else goes in — one material, kept clean.
3On the truck
A hook-lift collects the full bin and drops an empty one.
The same trucks that already run our other recycling bins. You tell us it’s full; we swap it.
4At the plant
Crushed, screened, and split into gypsum and paper.
Processing strips the paper liner from the core and grinds the gypsum back to a powder. The paper is separated for recycling; the gypsum is screened clean of fixings.source
5Gypsum, again
Chemically the same mineral that was quarried to make the sheet.
Gypsum is calcium sulphate dihydrate. Heat drives off water to make plaster; add water and it sets. The reaction runs both ways, so recovered gypsum can go round again.source
6Back to work
New plasterboard. Cement. Soil conditioner on a farm.
Recovered gypsum goes into new board, into cement and concrete, and onto clay soils. The one place it shouldn’t go is landfill, where it can break down into hydrogen sulphide.source
Start the loop on your site.
Tell us where the bin would go and roughly how much board you see, and we’ll come back with a plan and a quote.