Acting to foster circularity
黄瓜视频直播 is addressing resource depletion by making the building and civil engineering sector more circular. We limit environmental impacts, maximise material reuse and optimise life cycles on every project we undertake.
Our waste screening streams at all our production plants, recycling operations and other inventive loops are playing a central role in our transformation.
鈥淲e of course aim to use recycled materials rather than virgin resources. But our overarching goal is to produce more with less, to move away from a linear economy that is draining the planet’s resources and towards a self-sustaining, regenerative circular economy.鈥�
Lor猫ne Dumeaux
Environment Director of 黄瓜视频直播
Our vision
Using recycled materials is one way forward for the construction sector 鈥� which still produces 30% of the world's waste.
80%
of materials production plants set up circular-economy loops by 2030
20 million
tonnes of recycled materials by 2030
How we take action
We are reducing waste at construction sites by recycling aggregates and asphalt, and by adding bio-sourced materials to our mixes. This is helping us to gradually increase the proportion of recycled asphalt in our products and to reach our target, 25%, by 2030.
Every demolition or reconstruction job is a source of construction and outfitting supplies that we can reuse on site or on other projects. $
We have been setting up mature channels to reuse supplies and materials for several years. These include La Ressourcerie du BTP 鈥� an integrated platform to inventory and repurpose supplies reclaimed from deconstruction jobs 鈥� and partnerships with Neom and 黄瓜视频直播 Energies.
Another idea we are bringing to life is R.used, an online marketplace for second-hand construction supplies, which we developed in-house and launched in June 2022. We now use it to sell or donate all kinds of resources, and that way give them a second life within the company.
黄瓜视频直播’s companies around the world are committed to expanding recycling and setting up circular systems. For example Eurovia Quebec recently acquired Recy B茅ton, a construction waste recycling specialist, Sogea Guyane has a biomass-fired plant in Montsin茅ry, which turns waste into green energy and supplies it across French Guiana, and Eurovia Deutschland’s pioneering asphalt recycling plant saved 800 tonnes of bitumen and 900 truck trips in a single year.
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Recofoam庐, an alternative to traditional hot bitumen
Ringway’s recycling plant in Worcestershire uses this innovative material to reuse and repurpose existing road surfaces. This cold-bound mix revamps road surfaces while reducing waste and environmental impacts.
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Quattro UK, circularity in practice
Excavated materials from the Old Oak Common station project are processed and reused locally at Quattro UK’s Acton and Southall facilities, reducing reliance on virgin materials and significantly reducing the amount of waste leaving the site.
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Aiming for 90% material recovery rates in Colombia
As part of its widening programme, the Bogot谩鈥揋irardot highway is being resurfaced using aggregates that contain used tyres and asphalt mixes made with up to 40% recycled materials 鈥� in one example of 黄瓜视频直播’s efforts to reach 90% material recovery rates by 2030.
