Your Waste: Building Materials

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We can receive the following building materials (amongst others) at our Household Recycling Centres here in Wiltshire. Here's how we re-process these items and how they are re-used in other areas of construction and landscaping.

 

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Timber is chipped at Lower Compton nr Calne and then it is taken to a company called Boomeco - the wood chip is then used as a biomass fuel for energy and heat.

 

For more information see Boomeco's website.

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This is screened and cleaned and then is used as aggregate in site infrastructure.

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Soil is re-used for landfilll restoration and can be re-sold for landscaping projects.

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Scrap metal is re-processed by EJ Shanley & Sons and also by JW Ransome & Sons.