Inside Our £5 Million Edmonton Depot Upgrade

Waste management has changed a lot in the last twenty years. It used to be about collection: get it, bin it, move it on. Now it's about what happens next, turning that material back into something useful. At Sortera, that shift is basically our whole reason for being, and it's why we've just put £5 million into upgrading our Edmonton depot.

In our latest video, Managing Director PJ Chippendale walks through what the investment actually means on the ground: two new advanced processing lines that change how much we can handle, and how well.

So what's different?

We can now process waste at least twice as fast as before. That's not a small tweak, it changes what we're able to take on.

The material coming off these lines is higher quality from the start, which matters because it means less rework. Fewer tonnes have to be reprocessed to get them usable, which is better for us and better for the planet.

And because this is high-risk, physically demanding work, the upgrade also raises the bar on safety for the people doing it every day.

Why we did it

Here's the thing we keep coming back to: every tonne we collect should have a second life if we can possibly manage it. That's not a slogan, it's the actual test we hold ourselves to. Edmonton was overdue for an upgrade that let us live up to that more consistently, and now it has one.

We're not done, but this is a real step, not just a nice announcement.

Watch PJ talk through the upgrade in the full video here.