Help us re-cycle your old For Sale boards, agents are urged

A leading board supplier is encouraging as many agents and erectors as possible to use its free recycling service.

Steve Gosney, of Kremer Signs, said that although his firm has been recycling boards for a number of years, it has not been vocal enough about its free service.

This includes free collection when end-of-life boards are picked up by the same Kremer van making a new delivery.

If other couriers are used, Kremer is offering to arrange this at cost.

Estate agency boards have a reputation for being notoriously unfriendly to the environment. But Gosney said that this is no longer the case and in the last five years or so, Kremer has produced over 2.5m new boards, using a 100% recycled material.

At the same time it has collected and re-processed 1.2m signs.

Posts used for the boards are made from Scandinavian softwood, and water-based paints are used. The actual boards are made from fluted propylene which can be turned into products such as boxes and plant plots – although the gardening lobby is now joining the non-plastic lobby.

Even the ink now used to print agents’ boards is environmentally friendly, with no chemicals used, said Gosney.

Gosney said: “There was a time when producing boards was a simple task, carried out by one man bands across the country, using oil-based paints and printing inks that contained what are now deemed to be totally unacceptable levels of lead and toxins.

“Today, we adopt a very responsible approach to the environment and consider it necessary to help our clients recycle more whilst reducing their costs in waste disposal.”

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