New Construction Funding Support Available to Help Businesses Growth
18 October 2006
WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) has launched a construction waste recycling infrastructure capital support programme and is encouraging UK based construction and demolition waste collection or recycling businesses to apply for capital funding support.
The aim of this capital funding support is to stimulate investment and significantly increase the collection, segregation, recovery and recycling of materials (in particular non-aggregate fractions) arising from commercial Construction and Demolition (C&D) sites in the UK.
Mervyn Jones, WRAP’s Programme Manager for construction Waste Minimisation and Management, explains:
“Around 30 million tonnes of construction waste goes to landfill each year and contractors are being encouraged to reduce waste and be more resource efficient. This capital competition will help waste management contractors to provide the infrastructure and facilities to allow substantially more recycling of Construction & Demolition (C&D) waste and result in less disposal to landfill.”
The deadline for applications is 12 noon Monday 27 November and an application document is available to download online. Free workshops, also being run by WRAP, will be taking place in four locations across the country between 19th – 26th October.
To register for next week’s Cardiff and London events, email pam.golding@wrap.org.uk with names of the attendee(s) and your company, stating which event you wish to attend.
Mervyn Jones, WRAP’s Programme Manager for construction Waste Minimisation and Management, explains:
“Around 30 million tonnes of construction waste goes to landfill each year and contractors are being encouraged to reduce waste and be more resource efficient. This capital competition will help waste management contractors to provide the infrastructure and facilities to allow substantially more recycling of Construction & Demolition (C&D) waste and result in less disposal to landfill.”
The deadline for applications is 12 noon Monday 27 November and an application document is available to download online. Free workshops, also being run by WRAP, will be taking place in four locations across the country between 19th – 26th October.
To register for next week’s Cardiff and London events, email pam.golding@wrap.org.uk with names of the attendee(s) and your company, stating which event you wish to attend.
Editor's notes:
- WRAP works in partnership to encourage and enable businesses and consumers to be more efficient in their use of materials and recycle more things more often. This helps to minimise landfill, reduce carbon emissions and improve our environment.
- Established as a not-for-profit company in 2000, WRAP is backed by substantial Government funding from Defra and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- Working in seven key areas (Construction, Retail, Manufacturing, Organics, Business Growth, Behavioural Change, and Local Authority Support), WRAP’s work focuses on market development and support to drive forward recycling and materials resource efficiency within these sectors, as well as wider communications and awareness activities including the multi-media national Recycle Now campaign for England.
- More information on all of WRAP’s programmes can be found at www.wrap.org.uk
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