New facility boosts aggregates recycling in Scotland.

A new aggregates recycling facility, partly funded by the Scottish Executive through the Waste & Resources Action Program, will boost the production of higher quality and higher value recycled aggregates in Scotland.

The Eagle Recycling (U.K.) Ltd. facility in Denny, Stirlingshire, was officially opened May 12th and will produce more than 56,000 metric tons of recycled aggregates from construction, demolition and excavation waste in its first year of operation, rising to more than 92,000 metric tons per year after that. The company also expects the project to result in at least 10 new jobs.

Eagle Recycling was awarded the WRAP capital grant worth 419,475 [pounds sterling] through an open competition process. The funding is part of more than 3 million [pounds sterling] being made available by the Scottish Executive through to March 2007 to stimulate the production and use of quality recycled and secondary aggregates in Scotland.

Key to the project's success in attracting the WRAP funding was the inclusion of a washing plant as part of the facility, which will allow Eagle to produce added value products. Material coming into the site will be sorted by size, crushed further where necessary, and washed to produce aggregates which are suitable for a wide range of uses, including higher value applications such as pipe bedding and concrete production.

Liz Goodwin, WRAP's director of materials programs, said at the opening: "Eagle's new facility is a great example of the type of project that WRAP looks to fund--where sophisticated grading and washing plant can produce a range of added value products."

Charlie Clements, managing director of Eagle Recycling (U.K.) Ltd., added: "The WRAP funding has been of significant benefit to Eagle and it will allow us to further develop our business and become first class producers of recycled aggregates in central Scotland."