The company says that the addition of the waste sorting station to the company\u2019s facilities – along with new buildings for new workshops and a packaging store – makes it possible to maintain all of its activities in Reykjav\u00edk at a single location without the need for rented space.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason for the company\u2019s decision to embark on building this waste handling facility is simply that we feel that we have a duty to treat our environment with as much respect as we can,\u201d said HB Grandi CEO Vilhj\u00e1lmur Vilhj\u00e1lmsson. \u201cOur experience in Vopnafj\u00f6rdur has showed us that with a waste sorting station such as this one, we could avoid the need to dispose of a great deal of recyclable material. We simply want to demonstrate the will to make this happen, and that\u2019s why this building is here. Although there will undoubtedly be a few Icelandic krona that come in for everything that goes to be recycled, this will hardly come close to meeting the running costs, let alone the initial costs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Vilhj\u00e1lmsson said that the keen interest of the company\u2019s staff in the opportunities waste sorting offers will be harnessed to reduce the volume of material that needs to be disposed of or otherwise wasted as far as possible.<\/p>\n
The name of the facility was chosen in a competition run among HB Grandi staff, and the committee was unanimous in choosing the Svanur (Swan) name for the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HB Grandi\u2019s Svanur waste sorting station has been formally opened at its Nordurgardur location in Reykjavik, Iceland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-processing-refrigeration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9384"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}