Bristol-based Churngold Transport received 83,336 from WRAP, becoming the first aggregates capital project to win funds from the programme following the European Commission's clearance of the programme under State Aid rules last month (see letsrecycle.com story).
Steve Waite, WRAP’s aggregates capital project manager, said: “The UK generates millions of tonnes of construction, demolition and excavation wastes and these important projects are the first of several which WRAP will be announcing following the EC’s State Aid clearance decision.”
Churngold Transport plans to invest the grant into large plant and machinery items to work with its existing crusher and create new capacity. The project aims to produce over 217,000 tonnes of recycled aggregates over five years, in the form of various grades of stone.
John Barcham, managing director for Churngold Transport, said: “The Churngold Group is a major user of recycled and quarried products in its groundworks and construction operations, and Churngold Transport has often recycled materials, complementing its main tipper line operations and inert landfill activities. The WRAP grant enables us to significantly increase the volume of recycled aggregates and soils produced, both for the Group’s use and for supply to external construction and landscape companies.”
In March 2002, WRAP received 15.5 million in funding from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund in order to increase the use of recycled and secondary aggregates in England. The programme has set itself a target to increase the production of recycled and secondary aggregates by 2 million tonnes a year by 2004.
Scotland
Fife-based Realm Construction won 68,118 from WRAP's Scottish Aggregates Competition. It is the first company to receive a grant from this 1million fund which comes from proceeds of the Aggregates Levy provided by the Scottish Executive.
Mr Waite said: “Recycled and secondary aggregates have the potential to meet 25% of Scotland’s needs for construction aggregates within the built environment. Through the capital funding programme, WRAP will help to increase the country’s reprocessing infrastructure and promote a more sustainable approach to resource use.”
Realm Construction will invest the grant into washing equipment and infrastructure for an existing restoration and recycling facility at a derelict coal slurry site, expanding its capacity by 228,000 tonnes over the next five years. The project will produce higher value products, including clean single sized stone for pipe bedding and filtration systems as well as screened soils for landscaping applications as a by-product.
Jim Thomson, Realm Construction’s managing director, said: “The WRAP grant will allow us to increase our production of recycled aggregates by 40,000 tonnes in the first year of operation, along with 60,000 tonnes of screened soils. Our own construction projects will use a significant proportion, with the remainder being marketed and supplied through Purvis Group outlets for other external projects.”
The grant for Realm comes under the interim State Aid clearance approved by the European Commission in March 2003.
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