UK Opens Aggregate Recycling Plant

A £5 million (US$9.1 million) construction and demolition recycling center has opened in Birmingham, UK. The new facility was partly funded by the UK’s Waste & Resources Action Programme. It will produce 120,000 metric tons a year of recycled aggregates when it reaches full capacity. The facility is expected to reach full capacity next spring.

Built by Coleman & Co Ltd and awarded £390,741 in funding from WRAP, the recycling center is equipped with segregation, processing and washing plant which will enable them to produce high quality recycled aggregates for use in construction and in the ready mixed concrete industry. The facility will handle waste from the company’s own core activities of demolition, land reclamation and bulk excavation, as well as waste materials from external contracts and third parties.

“The funding from WRAP has supported the construction of a first class recycling facility that will process material previously destined for landfill into valuable usable products,” said David Coleman, managing director of Coleman & Co Ltd. “It has allowed us to take a sustainable approach to our own material use, as well as providing a recycling service to construction industry customers.”