Embracing the circular driven economy in construction

Almost one-third of Britain’s construction aggregates are from recycled and secondary sources, a new report by the Mineral Products Association has confirmed. The study titled ‘The Contribution of Recycled and Secondary Materials to Total Aggregates Supply in Great Britain – Estimates for 2021’ hailed the process of recycling construction waste to produce recycled aggregates as […]

Recycling construction and demolition waste has not peaked

By Chris Sheehan, MD of the Sheehan Group The UK can make much greater progress in recycling construction and demolition waste, regardless of how some data may be presented. The Mineral Productions Association (MPA) recently reported the recovery of construction waste to produce recycled aggregate is reaching close to upper limit. It claimed the practice […]

Construction and demolition recovery rates can be more effective

Sheehan Group Managing Director Chris Sheehan on why the mass adoption of the circular economy to re-purpose C&D waste can deliver significant carbon savings in construction industry High recovery rates of construction and demolition waste in Europe is still mainly achieved via practices such as backfilling and low-grade recovery applications. At first glance this gives […]