Recycle friendly resurfacing project in Cumbria extended

Material is to be supplied by Bardon Aggregates under a partnership which also resurfaced stretches of the A5087 using recycled glass last year.

”Cumbria Highways have found the results of using recycled glass in the binder course material to date to be extremely encouraging and we shall be exploring ways to increase it in the future. “
– Kevan Wilkinson, Cumbria county council

Based on the success of that scheme Bardon is supplying a further 4,000 tonnes for the next phase of the project. A total of 300 tonnes of crushed and rolled glass is now being used on a 12-week scheme that will see improvements to a further 1.3 kilometre stretch of the A5087 between Barrow in Furness and Rampside.

Cumbria county councillor, Kevan Wilkinson said: “The benefits to the environment of using recycled glass are at least twofold. It means less glass being buried in landfill sites and also, less virgin material being quarried, which helps to preserve our natural resources.

“Cumbria Highways have found the results to date to be extremely encouraging and we shall be exploring ways to increase it in the future,” he added.

Waste arisings

Bardon Aggregates, and its parent company Aggregate Industries, has been actively sourcing quality waste arisings and secondary aggregates from a number of different locations throughout the UK for use in its own products.

As well as the use of glass other waste arisings the company uses include road planings, rejects from asphalt plants, construction and demolition waste, clean concrete, incinerator bottom ash and pulverised fly ash.

Tom Wright, northern area general manager asphalt for Bardon, said: “The use of recycled material can only increase as local authorities and their contractors become more aware of the benefits.

“The use of recycled glass in the binder course material supplied to Cumbria Highways is just one of many initiatives within the Aggregate Industries Group, which are helping to ensure that the business of quarrying minimises its impact on the Environment,” he added.