The new sites, in Manchester and Norfolk, will turn construction waste such as stone, brick and rubble into recycled aggregate.
Breedon Group has announced the opening two new waste recovery and recycling sites in the UK, enabling customers to divert clean construction and demolition waste from disposal and have it processed into aggregate.
The construction materials provider’s two sites, in Ashbury, Greater Manchester, and Costessey, Norfolk, accept clean, uncontaminated recyclable materials from construction and demolition activities, including stone, brick, rubble, clean concrete and utility waste. These will be processed on site and made available to customers as recycled aggregate, reducing the need for primary and virgin aggregate and providing a more sustainable solution.
The move builds on Breedon’s established network of five inert waste sites across the UK, which have been in operation for more than a decade, supporting lawful landfill and quarry restoration activity.
Chris Burgess, Circular Economy Commercial Manager at Breedon, said “Ashbury and Costessey represent the company’s first facilities focused on producing recycled aggregate from customer and operational residual materials.
“These new sites mark a crucial step in how we’re developing our offering of more sustainable products and solutions through developing our commitment to a circular economy approach.
“By repurposing unused space at existing operations, we’re creating practical routes for clean construction materials to be recovered and reused, while continuing to serve our customers with the products they rely on today.
“We want to support our customers in managing residual materials more sustainably, while also using innovative methods to create value from our own operations.”
Both locations will continue to operate their existing core businesses alongside the new recycling activity. Costessey currently operates as a ready-mix concrete plant, while Ashbury is an aggregates and ready-mix concrete site. The recycling operations will make use of previously unused areas of each site.
Materials received at the sites will be sorted and segregated before being processed through a mobile screen and crushed to produce recycled aggregate suitable for reuse in construction projects.
Burgess added: “Using recycled materials wherever appropriate helps to reduce waste, protect primary aggregate reserves, and ensures the industry can meet growing demand for infrastructure in a responsible way.”
Breedon’s existing waste recovery sites have over 6 million tonnes of available capacity for this kind of service – and continue to support long-term restoration projects, including biodiversity-led schemes such as the North Cave Wetlands Nature Reserve.
