Aggregate Industries and Brown Recycling have partnered together. Image: Aggregate Industries
Aggregate Industries has revealed a partnership to process “pitcher waste”—pottery that has been broken or rejected during manufacture.
The UK-aggregates business has partnered with Brown Recycling to crush the waste from ceramic waste into a raw material to use it in cement.
Cauldon Cement Plant will turn the pitcher waste from the partnership into cement after mixing in additional components. This new usage saves pitcher waste from entering landfills and relieves the need to source virgin materials.
“We’re delighted to be working with Brown Recycling and utilising what essentially is a waste stream into new cement which will go on to be used in building projects around the country,” Geocycle UK general manager at Aggregate Industries Andrew Whyatt said.
“Using the waste pottery and upcycling it into the cement production process means we have to use less raw materials dug up from the ground, therefore preserving resources and preventing materials from going to landfill.
“Circularity is a central part of our decarbonisation agenda and we want to move from a take-make-waste economy to a reduce-recycle-regenerate one.”
Cauldon was Britain’s first dry process cement plant when it opened in 1957. The plant produces one million tonnes of cement a year and employs 125 permanent staff and 30 contractors.
An initial 4,000 tonnes per annum will be delivered with the view to expand this.
“With a long heritage in sustainable waste management, We are always looking for ways to ensure the commercial waste we collect and process is recycled and reused,” Brown Recycling co-managing director Mitch Brown said.
“It is an excellent example of regional industrial symbiosis and the circular economy model of recycling and reintroducing this local waste into another production cycle. It also builds on our expertise in ceramic waste management, delivering a long-term sustainable solution for pitcher waste with a 100% recycle and reuse outcome.
“Our partnership with Aggregate Industries is a great example of this and we’re looking forward to working with them on similar opportunities for other waste materials.”
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