Waste & Recycling

Aggregate Industries has run a trial which saw 20% of the bitumen content in asphalt mixes replaced with waste vegetable oil

Quality protocol from the Environment Agency/Waste & Resources Action Programme covers tyre-derived rubber materials

Cemex cement works has been given official approval from the Environment Agency to continue to burn Climafuel on a permanent basis

At a local authorities and waste industry summit this month, environment secretary Hilary Benn announced how Britain can become a zero waste nation.

The Olympic Delivery Authority is the latest of almost 200 bodies in the construction supply chain to sign up to the Waste & Resources Action Programme’s Halving Waste to Landfill commitment

The Government is to publish a new code of practice for sustainable use of soils on construction sites

A biomass and waste-fuelled power plant has been given the go-ahead to be built at Tilbury Docks, Essex

Architects and designers are undermining sustainability initiatives by using non-recyclable materials more often, the president of the Institute of Demolition Engineers has claimed

Kingspan Water, producers and suppliers of recycling products, has announced that it has made significant improvements to its domestic rainwater harvesting system.

May brought green changes to Luton, as an innovative recycling centre opened, creating construction materials from waste.

Pursuing its aim of halving the amount of waste the construction industry sends to landfill by 2012 has prompted the Government’s Waste & Resources Action Programme to start a feasibility study and industry consultations on the potential for a new recycling framework.

The choice of construction materials and high levels of recycling  waste are helping a new shopping centre being built in St Austell achieve a Breeam ‘very good’ rating. Ben Kochan reports

Several major construction clients and contractors have signed up to a new voluntary agreement launched by the Government’s Waste & Resources Action Programme to halve the amount of waste they send to landfill by 2012 as the industry grapples with its meaning.

Companies seeking capital for recycling of non-inert construction and demolition waste in Scotland can now seek funds from the Waste & Resources Action Programme’s new grant scheme.