Breedon Group to open two waste recovery and recycling sites

Breedon Group PLC will open waste recovery and recycling sites at two of its existing facilities.

The firm’s England sites in Ashbury and Costessy will accept clean, uncontaminated recyclable materials from construction and demolition activities, including stone, brick, rubble, clean concrete and utility waste.

“Ashbury and Costessey represent the company’s first facilities focused on producing recycled aggregate from customer and operational residual materials,” says Chris Burgess, circular economy commercial manager at Breedon. “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.”

Breedon Group, based in England, says materials 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 firm added that the move builds on its established network of five inert waste sites throughout the United Kingdom, which have been in operation for more than a decade supporting lawful landfill and quarry restoration activity. The addition of recycled aggregate production at Ashbury and Costessey further strengthens Breedon’s ability to support customers looking to recover and reuse materials.

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, with no change to existing product availability for customers.

“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,” Burgess says. “We want to support our customers in managing residual materials more sustainably, while also using innovative methods to create value from our own operations.”

According to Breedon, the expansion strengthens its ability to support customers focused on the circular economy while helping to protect primary aggregate reserves by ensuring materials are reused wherever possible.

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.

Breedon says its existing waste recovery sites have more than 6 million tons 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.

“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,” Burgess says.