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These changes are happening to eliminate misclassification as
the current system is seen as open to exploitation and
misclassification of waste with the new measures
incentivizing more efficient waste management and reduce
the amount of waste going to landfill.
Alternative Solutions
The McLanahan Open Day encouraged the visitors to explore
alternative solutions through their wider machinery portfolio
with a working example of what has been achieved at
SunEnviro.
Prior to a tour of the plant Donal McNicholl discussed how
with a McLanahan solution it is straight forward to process
material responsibly and sustainably.
With the whole philosophy to support a circular economy and
minimize waste McLanahan machine solutions for C&D
recycling help to support a circular economy by recovering
aggregate material destined for the landfill and processing it
for reuse in the construction industry.
Once the aggregate material recovered from C&D debris
streams has been properly sized and sorted, it may need to
undergo additional processing before it can be used for
certain construction projects. The wet processing part of the
C&D recycling operation includes washing and scrubbing
away deleterious material from the sound aggregate. It can
also include classifying and dewatering the sand fraction. To
add to the sustainability of the wet process, the resulting
waste stream can include liquid-solid separation equipment
for recycling reusable process water and getting the solids
fraction to a drip-free, easy-to-manage state.
These previously used construction materials are given new
life as recycled aggregate to be reused once again, minimizing
the amount of material sent to waste.
As Donal pointed out McLanahan supports these efforts with
complete packaged solutions for feeding, crushing, screening,
scrubbing, washing, classifying, dewatering, sampling, water
recycling, and tailings management in C&D recycling
applications.
The importance of recycling plant growth in
the UK.
HUB4 spoke to Donal McNicholl – Director of Sales at
McLanahan, “The UK produces approximately 220
million tons/year of aggregate with 79 million tons of
that material made up of recycled aggregates. The UK
has a large population on a small island with limited
mineral reserves. If you look at London it has a number
of sand and gravel pits, no hard rock quarries so recycled
aggregates needs to play an integral part of the mineral
supply.”
“McLanahan business is separated into three main
sectors, those being aggregates, mining and agriculture.
The aggregates sector which I am involved in deals with
quarries and companies processing recycled aggregates
generated from construction and demolition waste. Each
of our plants are tailored to pulling valuable resources
out of those waste streams.”
“McLanahan is investing heavily in the European
marketplace with the recent expansion of our factory in
Dungannon, NI. The factory was opened two years ago
and this summer we have doubled the floor space to be
able to process more business and shorten the time-
frame of point of order to dispatch.”
www.hub-4.com Sept/Oct - Issue 94
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