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Cholsey Bluebirds are flying high with the Sheehan Group’s support

A girl’s football team from Cholsey is riding the crest of a wave exactly one year after it’s first fixture, thanks to support from construction specialists the Sheehan Group. Cholsey Bluebirds U10s started in the bottom division of the Oxfordshire Girls Football League and lost their first match 27-0 with a skeleton squad and no […]

The Sheehan Group prevents more than one million tonnes of waste going to landfill

Recycling and sustainable construction firm the Sheehan Group is celebrating a landmark recycling milestone. It has now saved more than one million tonnes of construction and demolition waste from UK landfill sites in the decade since it significantly invested in CDE recycling technology. High-grade recycled products  The advanced recycling plant is used to wash construction […]

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 […]

Sheehan Group invest in improving recycling plant to produce higher quality sustainable products

The Sheehan Group have invested in upgrading in its CDE Global wet processing plant to produce higher quality recycled sand. The Recycling and sustainable construction company made the significant investment in adding another wash to the system to produce higher quality sharp sand. The Sheehan Group are one of the first companies in the UK […]

What is Sheehan Muck Away?

Muck away is classified into inert, hazardous and non-hazardous. Inert muck away can be defined as soils that have not gone through any chemical, physical or biological processes. Inert muck away, includes brick, concrete, hardcore and subsoil. Other waste can be defined as inert, provided it is tested and meets a waste acceptance criterion (commonly known as a WAC […]

Sheehan Group deliver talk at C&D industry Annual Conference in New York

Sheehan Group present to C&D industry delegates The Sheehan Group presented to American leaders of the C&D industry at a conference in Brooklyn, New York this month. Tara and Katie Sheehan presented to C&D industry delegates how the Sheehan Group has diversified the family-run recycling business through the years. Sheehan Group presents diversification journey to […]

The Sheehan Group share sustainability message far and wide

The Sheehan Group’s educational children’s book on sustainability has been shared with industry partners in the USA. ‘Captain Envirotron and the battle to save planet earth’, is a book that outlines sustainable living via the story of super-hero Captain Envirotron. News that the book has been enjoyed by children in the USA, reached us at […]

Sheehan Haulage and Plant Hire win appeal to increase recycling production

Sheehan Haulage and Plant Hire has appealed for local authority officials to urgently overhaul its policies relating to climate change in response to Sir David Attenborough’s stark call for radical action. The call for action came after Sheehan Haulage and Plant Hire was granted permission to increase production at its advanced waste washing plant, on […]

School pupils’ recycling colouring in competition winner’s drawing placed on Sheehan Group’s vehicles

School pupil Charlie Hawkins has proudly had his winning colouring-in competition entry of recycling super-hero Captain Environton placed on lorries in the Sheehan Group fleet. Charlie, aged 11, was delighted to see his sketch and name on the door of a Sheehan Group lorry when it visited the school. The sketch has been placed on […]

Why Interconnecting Concrete Blocks are Growing in Popularity 

Interconnecting concrete blocks are highly versatile and offer numerous benefits to clients. They are the perfect solution for custom storage bays, partition walls, security blocks, retaining walls and flood defences.  We produce solid dense concrete blocks at our site in Oxfordshire for bulk orders. The products we produce are the most durable and resilient blocks […]

Recycling super-hero helps Oxfordshire pupils learn about recycling waste

Pupils at an Oxfordshire primary school learnt about sustainable living via the story of super-hero Captain Envirotron, thanks to the Sheehan Group. Children at West Kidlington Primary School were treated to a special reading of the story of ‘Captain Envirotron and the battle to save planet earth’, by its author Tara Sheehan, Finance Director of […]

MP and Oxford University visit major recycling plant

Conservative MP Robert Courts visited the Sheehan Group to discover how the company is leading the way on recycling in the county.  Mr Courts was joined by Nicholas Field-Johnson, Head of Development at Oxford University for a tour of the Sheehan Group’s advanced recycling plant in Oxford.  The water treatment facility is used to wash […]