1.4m construction waste recycling plant opens in Glasgow

The Malcolm Construction Services 1.4 million facility has been built at a disused shipyard in Glasgow.

C&D; waste support offered

WRAP is inviting UK construction and demolition waste collection or recycling businesses to apply for capital funding support under a new programme. WRAP’s programme manager Mervyn Jones explained: “This capital competition will help waste management contractors to provide the infrastructure and facilities to allow substantially more recycling of construction and demolition waste.” The deadline for applications is 27 November. WRAP: Construction support

Construction, demolition and excavation waste will be processed at the plant, which will use a quayside facility to allow barges to deliver some of its materials.

Malcolm Construction Services, which is part of the Malcolm Group, refurbished several buildings on the site as well as improving the surrounding infrastructure.

The site houses a materials separation line, recycled aggregate processing plant and transportation equipment. The site will handle pipe bedding, sand bedding and recycled concrete aggregates.

Walter Malcolm, managing director of WH Malcolm Ltd, said: “We at Malcolm's have been at the forefront of developments in the recycling and re-use of construction and demolition waste for many years. We realised a long time ago that not only was recycling good for the environment, it was also good for our business.”

WRAP
The new plant was supported by 356,677 in funding from WRAP, the Waste and Resources Action Programme.

Mike Falconer Hall, WRAP’s aggregates capital project manager, said: “We are delighted to have supported Malcolm Construction Services with this opportunity, which will help develop Scotland’s recycling infrastructure, contributing to the production of a significant tonnage of quality recycled aggregates and therefore reducing reliance on extraction of primary aggregates as well as diverting materials from landfill.”

And Mr Malcolm added: “We are very grateful to WRAP for their support in our efforts to further develop and improve our recycling operations.”