Aggregates Recycling Boosted By Further WRAP Grants
08 March 2005
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has awarded five more capital grants under its latest Aggregates Capital Competition, aimed at increasing the production and use of recycled and secondary aggregates in England.
Premier Waste UK plc, Jack Moody Ltd, Eastern Waste Disposal Ltd, General Recycling Ltd and Aggregate Industries UK Ltd are the latest beneficiaries of grants totalling over £1 million, which will deliver almost 420,000 annual tonnes of new reprocessing capacity by 2010.
Four of the awards are for the production of recycled aggregates from Construction, Demolition and Excavation Waste (CD&EW). Based in Birmingham, Premier Waste UK plc receives £56,000 for a new double deck screen to increase its production capacity by nearly 40,000 tonnes. Grants of £184,000 and £109,000 to Jack Moody Ltd at Wolverhampton and General Recycling Ltd at Walton on Thames will respectively fund new crushing and screening equipment and Eastern Waste Disposal Ltd will be investing £226,000 in new mobile and static equipment for CD&EW recycling, as well as a new facility for removing contamination from skip waste at their Brightlingsea site.
The fifth grant of £499,000 for Aggregate Industries UK Ltd will put in place production capacity of 260,000 tonnes per annum of secondary aggregates from china clay waste stockpiled at the company’s Littlejohn’s Pit in Cornwall.
Steve Waite, WRAP’s Aggregates Capital Project Manager, said: “This is the first wave of English grant funding from the competition launched in April 2004. Further press releases will follow on similar projects promoting the use of recycled and secondary aggregates in England and Scotland from the 2004 competition. These projects are contributing to WRAP’s Business Plan target of three million tonnes additional processing capacity by 2006.”
Premier Waste UK plc, Jack Moody Ltd, Eastern Waste Disposal Ltd, General Recycling Ltd and Aggregate Industries UK Ltd are the latest beneficiaries of grants totalling over £1 million, which will deliver almost 420,000 annual tonnes of new reprocessing capacity by 2010.
Four of the awards are for the production of recycled aggregates from Construction, Demolition and Excavation Waste (CD&EW). Based in Birmingham, Premier Waste UK plc receives £56,000 for a new double deck screen to increase its production capacity by nearly 40,000 tonnes. Grants of £184,000 and £109,000 to Jack Moody Ltd at Wolverhampton and General Recycling Ltd at Walton on Thames will respectively fund new crushing and screening equipment and Eastern Waste Disposal Ltd will be investing £226,000 in new mobile and static equipment for CD&EW recycling, as well as a new facility for removing contamination from skip waste at their Brightlingsea site.
The fifth grant of £499,000 for Aggregate Industries UK Ltd will put in place production capacity of 260,000 tonnes per annum of secondary aggregates from china clay waste stockpiled at the company’s Littlejohn’s Pit in Cornwall.
Steve Waite, WRAP’s Aggregates Capital Project Manager, said: “This is the first wave of English grant funding from the competition launched in April 2004. Further press releases will follow on similar projects promoting the use of recycled and secondary aggregates in England and Scotland from the 2004 competition. These projects are contributing to WRAP’s Business Plan target of three million tonnes additional processing capacity by 2006.”
Editor's notes:
- WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) is a major UK programme established to promote resource efficiency. Its particular focus is on creating stable and efficient markets for recycled materials and products and removing the barriers to waste minimisation, re-use and recycling.
- A not-for-profit company in the private sector, WRAP is backed by substantial Government funding from Defra, DTI and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- WRAP has laid down targets across twelve programmes. Nine of these relate to market development, comprising six material streams (Paper, Plastics, Glass, Wood, Organics and Aggregates) and three generic areas (Procurement, Financial Mechanisms and Regional Market Development). Three new programmes relate to the wider resource efficiency remit - Collections, Communications and Awareness and Waste Minimisation.
- The WRAP Aggregates Programme in England has been funded since 2002 by Defra through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. The Aggregates Levy was set up by the Government to reduce impact on the environment from the extraction of aggregates such as crushed rock, sand and gravel used in construction. The WRAP work, which is being funded for a further three years from 2004, has the aim of reducing demand for primary aggregates by encouraging greater use of recycled and secondary aggregates. Some of the revenues from the Levy are also channelled back to communities affected by aggregates extraction through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund in England and the Sustainable Action Fund in Scotland.
- In 2004 the Scottish Executive approved £1.4m from the Sustainable Action Fund for a second phase of the WRAP Aggregates Programme for Scotland.
- Recycled aggregates can be produced by reprocessing materials - such as concrete, brick, asphalt, unbound sub-bases - previously used in construction. Secondary aggregates are typically by-products of other industrial processes not previously used in construction, such as china clay waste, foundry sand, glass, tyres, and plastic.
- In 2003 WRAP launched its AggRegain website (www.aggregain.org.uk) which provides information on materials, specifications, case studies and suppliers for all recycled and secondary aggregates and their applications.
- More information on all of WRAP's programmes can be found on www.wrap.org.uk
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Steve Waite
Aggregates Capital Project Manager
WRAP
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Tel: 01295 819923
steve.waite@wrap.org.uk
