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Recycling excavated material
The challenge:
To develop an efficient, economical and environmentally friendly solution to reduce the quantity of spoil going to landfill.
The solution:
Installing columns requires excavation, which in turn produces spoil - which would ordinarily end up in landfill.
However, Cartledge and one of its supply partners have developed an alternative solution.
This spoil from various contracts is removed to one of a number of skips located at each of the company's depots. When the skip is full it is collected by the waste contractor.
The spoil is then sorted at a recycling facility near Chelmsford. The waste is sorted into various categories - for example topsoil or ballast - and then reused around the county.
The benefits include:
Reduction in the quantity of waste to landfill.
Reduction in the number of Type 1 aggregate purchased.
Reduction in the use of finite resources from quarrying.
Returning waste in a reusable format to the environment from which it came.
Cost effective solution to waste management.
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