Robert Sant

Robert Sant is employed as the Managing Director of AO Recycling Limited. AO Recycling Ltd was formed when The Recycling Group Ltd merged with AO World Plc. AO Recycling is the UK’s leading fridge and Large Domestic Appliances (LDAs) recycler. The company, based in Telford, recycles more than 700,000 fridges a year - This is a fifth of the total number of fridges thrown away annually in the UK. As well as recycling fridges and other domestic appliances, such as washing machines and tumble driers, the company also refurbishes and repairs used appliances for resale. It also recycles packaging materials including cardboard and polystyrene. At the heart of the plant is a bespoke Andritz shredding machine which can process over 100 fridges an hour. The new cutting edge materials recovery technologies I have helped to design and develop at Telford, have delivered a plant which is a jewel in the crown of UK recycling and which boasts industry-leading recovery rates for all of the materials. We sell materials from the recycled fridges and LDA’s , including high quality shredded steel, plastics , compressors, motors, Polyurethane (PU) foam, copper and aluminum. I am a specialist in all aspects of end-to-end recycling and materials recovery, as well as large scale project management, software development and systems analysis and have been the Managing Director of a recycling company for almost fifteen years. Prior to this, and following my graduation from Liverpool University with a degree in mathematics and physics, I worked in IT for several years as a Senior Project Manager. We specialised in developing and delivering software for large implementations within the areas of logistics, freight forwarding and shipping lines. We developed and implemented software all around the world for large Logistics customers such as TNT, DHL, Wincanton, Tibbet and Britten, Tech companies of the time such as Nokia and Hitachi, and Shipping companies such as Yang Ming .

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