New Facilty set to Increase Recycled Aggregates in Scotland
Malcolm Construction Services, part of the Malcolm Group, was awarded £356,677 in funding to complete the £1.4 million project at a disused shipyard in Glasgow. The new facility, officially opened yesterday, will process construction, demolition and excavation waste collected using skips, bulk tipper haulage and even barges via the quayside facilities available on site.
Mike Falconer Hall, WRAP’s Aggregates Capital Project Manager, said: “We are delighted to have supported Malcolm Construction Services with this opportunity, which will help develop Scotland’s recycling infrastructure, contributing to the production of a significant tonnage of quality recycled aggregates and therefore reducing reliance on extraction of primary aggregates as well as diverting materials from landfill”.
The new facility, following the refurbishment of some of the existing buildings and improvements to the surrounding infrastructure, incorporates a materials separation line, recycled aggregate processing plant and associated mobile equipment. The aggregate recycling plant will ultimately produce around 350,000 tonnes per annum of 600 and 800 series aggregates, pipe bedding, sand bedding, and recycled concrete aggregates.
Walter Malcolm, Managing Director of W H Malcolm Limited, said: “We at Malcolm’s have been at the forefront of developments in the recycling and re-use of construction and demolition waste for many years. We realised a long time ago that not only was recycling good for the environment, it was also good for our business. We are very grateful to WRAP for their support in our efforts to further develop and improve our recycling operations”.
Notes to editors:
- 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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