Reading Mike Keatinge’s letter on work-life balance (NCE, last month), I felt compelled to respond providing the counter argument. I believe my opinion is held by many others. In years gone by, one sole income was adequate for many families to make ends meet, more recently two incomes are needed.…
What is known about the benefits and risks of using waste-derived plastics in highway construction?
With pressure mounting on the waste industry to increase the percentage of material it repurposes, the prospect of binding waste into highway pavements has moved up the agenda in recent years. Demonstration projects have been…
Materials science and technology can only take us so far when it comes to recycling construction waste. to take it further, industry attitudes must change and standards must evolve.
Today, with the climate emergency, few would question why you would try to recycle and reuse construction waste. But 40 years ago…
The North London Waste Authority (NLWA) is calling for bids for the construction of a £600M energy from waste plant.
The Energy Recovery Facility (ERF), part of the NLWA’s £1.2bn North London Heat and Power Project (NLHPP), will divert up to 700,000t of waste from landfill every year. NLWA is the…
Second stage trials of recycled asphalt on the M25 set to get underway next month are breaking down barriers in terms of reusing material in greater quantities and at a higher value.
If you drive anti-clockwise around the M25 in Essex, you might cross a revolutionary piece of asphalt – but…
Amey is awaiting a decision on its proposed energy from waste plant at Waterbeach Waste Management Park in Cambridgeshire after the close of a three-week planning inspectorate inquiry in November.
Planning permission for the £200M plant was refused by Cambridgeshire County Council in September last year, based on its impact on…
Viridor, the UKs biggest recycling company, has announced plans to build a £65M plastic recycling plant on its existing site near Avonmouth.
The plant will process more than 60,000t of reusable raw material each year. The plant will be powered by an existing energy from waste facility on the site. This uses 320,000t of…
Reusing fibrous materials from tyres in concrete has been found to reduce spalling where concrete explosively cracks under intense heat.
University of Sheffield researchers have found that reusing the textile reinforcement from old tyres helps to prevent layers of concrete shattering off under heat stress. Under intense heat, expanding moisture inside…
The contract award for a £500M energy from waste plant to an Urbaser Balfour Beatty joint venture (UBB) is facing a legal challenge.
Gloucestershire County Council has been accused of breaking procurement laws when it altered the terms of its construction and operations contract for the 14MW energy from waste plant contract…
A German research organisation has developed a way to reuse the country’s 5Mt of building rubble left over from construction each year.
Following a three-year long €3.3M (£2.87M) research project, the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics has developed the solution for dealing with fine-grained building rubble. Called the BauCycle process, it separates the various components using an opto-pneumatic detector that enables…
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