All C&D Recycling Articles

Dust Control Technology has combined with SMI Evaporative Solutions to develop a computer controlled automation system that monitors and manages dust suppression equipment

The UK's South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) has undertaken to reduce the amount of C&D and excavation waste it sends to landfill

Haigh Contracts Ltd is using a Terex Finlay 694 Supertrack to reclaim concrete, stone and masonry at Scratchwood Depot

Zen Excavation is using Allu equipment for small scale demolition and recycling activities

Potentially explosive levels of methane have been discovered at the St Louis Demolition Landfill

Erin Recycling is to supply a custom designed recycling system to Montecalvo Disposal Services for the latter’s New Jersey recycling facility

4Recycling is to establish a 40,000 square foot (3,716 square metre) recycling facility at the 45 acre Beeley Wood Recycling Village

The first factory-built Doosan DX210W to enter the UK has been handed over to J & P Lewis (Metals)

A new landfill site for construction and demolition waste has been opened north of the Saudi Arabian capital Jeddah.

Aberdare, Wales, based crushing contractor Celtic Crushing is using four Terex Pegson mobile crushers to process more than 135,000 tonnes of concrete slabs broken out during the demolition of the Ebbw Vale steelworks, which closed in 2002

Recycling will eliminate 500 vehicle movements, leading to fuel savings and lower emissions during the regeneration of Raploch in Stirling.

Industry figures suggest that in the UK, up to 300,000 end-of-life PVC-U window and door frames are disposed of in landfills annually. According to Merritt Plastics Ltd managing director Simon Readman, attitudes in the construction and recycling industries need to change if valuable resources are to be preserved.

Out of a total of 3.5 million tones of C&D waste understood to be produced annually in Israel, in 2007 recycling operations across the country succeeded in processing 700,000 tonnes, around 20%.

WRAP has launched a new capital funding grant scheme for waste processing projects in England

Debris from the old Wembley stadium, home to English football for many years, has been used for landscaping a new urban park

A new waste transfer station has opened at the Yolo County Central landfill in Woodland, California, to serve the surrounding area. The new facility will be operated by the Yolo County Planning and Public Works Division of Integrated Waste Management to provide C&D waste recycling for the surrounding county.

Bedminster International, based in Dublin, has gained planning approval for a £35 million (US$70 million) bioenergy facility to be built at Northwich, UK.

It is not just C&D waste processors who are seeing the advantages offered by using modern mobile crushing and screening equipment. Increasingly, these machines are being used in other construction projects to produce base and fill materials on the actual construction site.

This Grasan KR1515 primary impact crusher has been moved more than 750 times and processed 18 million tons of asphalt waste over its 13-year service life to date

Terex Powerscreen tracked screening units, both capable of screening C&D waste materials as well as virgin aggregates, have been acquired by up and coming UK demolition contractor East Midlands Demolition, based in Little Eaton near the city of Derby. Established six years ago, the company has completed a number of prestigious contracts over these years, and with future prospects strong, felt the need to expand its recycling activities.