WRAP Awards Grant Money to Boost Aggregates Recycling

The Waste & Resources Action Programme 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 totaling more than £1 million, which will deliver almost 420,000 annual metric tons of new reprocessing capacity by 2010.

Four of the awards are for the production of recycled aggregates from Construction, Demolition and Excavation Waste.

Based in Birmingham, Premier Waste UK plc receives £56,000 for a new double deck screen to increase its production capacity by nearly 40,000 metric tons. 

Grants of £184,000 and £109,000 to Jack Moody Ltd at Wolverhampton and General Recycling Ltd at Walton on Thames will respectively fund new crushing and screening equipment and Eastern Waste Disposal Ltd 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 UK Ltd will put in place production capacity of 260,000 metric tons per year 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. Further press releases will follow on similar projects promoting the use of recycled and secondary aggregates in England and Scotland from the 2004 competition. These projects are contributing to WRAP’s Business Plan target of three million metric tons of additional processing capacity by 2006.”