Rubble Recycling

Rubble crushing & recycling

The background

In the past, building and construction projects rarely re-used any demolition materials on site. If a site required clearing ahead of a project - domestic or commercial - the approach was generally to burn any combustible waste, bury as much the non-combustibles on site and shift the rest away in tipper trucks or skip lorries. Since the early nineties, site waste legislation has restricted this type of approach on larger projects and now, with ever greater emphasis on sustainability and ecological issues, legislation is beginning to control smaller sites.

What benefits of on site rubble recycling?

The advantages in brief

Aside from being a demonstrable contribution to your firm's environmental credentials - which will help you win new contracts and project an image of compliance to environmental authorities - there are distinct advantages to crushing rubble on site.

In many areas legislation is already trying to push construction firms towards on site recycling, but even without this incentive, there are convincing reasons to look at this as, increasingly the most cost effective option.

Not only do you save the cost of imported aggregage by crushing and re-using the waste brick, concrete and stone on site, but you also save the cost of removing this waste from site.  Since this approach is far less dependant on vehicle movements to and from site, you are less likely to suffer delays due to traffic or complaints from neighbours about the levels of vehicle movements - smaller sites frequently being in residential areas.

Overall transport and fuel costs are greatly reduced and - where the carbon footprint of a development is measured - this is another feather in the cap of the environmentally sensitive contractor.

 

Why should you recycle your rubble on site?

• Save by using the recycled rubble as aggregate and fill on site.
• Removing recyleable waste from site causes needless traffic and pollution.
• Recycling on site saves fuel.