Margot James visits Overton recycling plant
29th June 2010
Margot James visited Overton’s recycling plant in Lye on Friday, which was also featured the The Politics Show over the weekend. Dean Overton, MD, who started the business five years ago showed her round the state of the art facility.
Employing over 100 people with the latest technology for sorting and recycling mountains of waste Overtons is a local success story. Dean Overton explained that although he lives in Oxfordshire he could never have succeeded so quickly if he had sited his business in his home county.
Dean said “The Black Country still has a fabulous work ethic and the planning process is more business friendly, the Local Authority want businesses to succeed and make it easy for companies to utilise the substantial amount of land and buildings designated for light industrial use”. The main limit to growth at the moment is the willingness of Local Councils to send their waste miles away to be recycled.
Margot said “Overton’s have great potential to employ more local people, it must make environmental sense for Local Authorities to follow Dudley’s example and have their waste treated and recycled locally, I shall be writing to nearby councils like Walsall and Wolverhampton to ask them if they will reconsider their policy of sending their waste miles away for recycling when the job could be done within a twenty mile radius here in Lye.
