Aggregates recycling boosted by further WRAP grants
WRAP 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 tonnes a year 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 receive £56,000 for a new double-deck screen to increase production capacity by nearly 40,000 tonnes. Grants of £184,000 and £109,000 to Jack Moody at Wolverhampton and General Recycling at Walton on Thames will respectively fund new crushing and screening equipment, while Eastern Waste Disposal 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 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. These projects are contributing to WRAP’s business plan target of 3 million tonnes of additional processing capacity by 2006.'
