The UK’s first Access Control Textile Bank

Egbert Taylor partnered with Nathan’s Wastesavers to launch the UK’s first textile bank with access control, helping reduce theft, contamination and fly-tipping while improving collection planning with fill-level monitoring.

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 the textile banks can access them.

Partnership with Cash for Kids and Asda

Nathan’s Wastesavers, in partnership with Cash For Kids and Asda, one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains, will now be the first to integrate this product across its textile bank network in selected areas when it rolls out the technology during July.

Peter Page, National Recycling Manager at Nathan’s Wastesavers, comments:

“Egbert Taylor has proven its ability to effectively address waste collection challenges with technology, and demonstrated that it can add significant value to our business by helping us to create a solution that eliminates problems with theft we continually experience. Our long-term relationship with Asda makes the supermarket the ideal business to debut this system, which will safeguard its textile banks, and we now look forward to working with Egbert Taylor in the future.”

When an authorised user is near the textile bank, the netBin nLok system, via an app, recognises them and grants access. The textile banks are also equipped with netBin’s nPod fill level sensor, which enable waste collection teams to decide whether or not their textile banks require emptying, saving them time and reducing carbon emissions associated with unnecessarily emptying the banks.

On the partnership, Kevin Docherty, Area Business Manager at Egbert Taylor, which distributes netBin in the UK, adds: “We’re delighted to continue developing innovative solutions for the UK waste market and now look forward to building on our successful relationship with Nathan’s Wastesavers and rolling out the solution to a wider audience. From a practical perspective, this product offers an efficient textile collection service by managing access and preventing textile banks from overflowing. We believe that this product has the potential to become a mainstream textile bank solution for the industry over the coming months.”

Case study highlights

The rollout created a more secure textile bank solution that reduced misuse risk, supported cleaner collections and gave teams a better way to decide when banks actually needed emptying.

Authorised users only
Access control
App-enabled access to the textile bank
Fill-level monitoring
Collection planning
nPod sensor supports smarter emptying decisions
Reduced theft and contamination
Operational impact
Designed to limit misuse and fly-tipping
Fewer unnecessary collections
Efficiency
Sensor data helps teams prioritise visits

Egbert Taylor has proven its ability to effectively address waste collection challenges with technology, and demonstrated that it can add significant value to our business by helping us to create a solution that eliminates problems with theft we continually experience. Our long-term relationship with Asda makes the supermarket the ideal business to debut this system, which will safeguard its textile banks, and we now look forward to working with Egbert Taylor in the future.

Peter Page, National Recycling Manager, Nathan's Wastesavers

At a glance

Entity

Egbert Taylor

Sector

Textile Recycling

Service

Access control systems, Textile banks

Outcome

Reduced contamination, Theft prevention

Project type

Waste Management Infrastructure

Year

2018

Location

United Kingdom

Engagement

Pilot rollout

Next step

Visit Egbert Taylor

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