Milestone Infrastructure has signed a collaboration framework agreement to supply current and future clients with OCL Regeneration's highways recycling and circular economy solution nationwide.
The highways contractor said OCL’s approach and network of facilities bring together its own asset management and design expertise to enable 100% of the waste produced through highways maintenance to be recycled into new aggregates, surfacing materials and low carbon concretes.
The agreement sees the businesses build on the relationship established around the Highways Award-winning Micheldever highways waste recycling depot project, and other existing works.
Milestone said that over the past 12 months the two have jointly recycled over 30,000 tonnes of highway waste, saving more than 500 tonnes of carbon.
Operations director Matthew Riches (pictured, right) said: ‘Working with OCL means Milestone will process, treat, and re-lay highway waste within close radius of where the material originates.
‘This helps Milestone to support its clients to reduce their costs and carbon associated with the transport and disposal of waste, cut the reliance on virgin products and ultimately bring Milestone and its clients closer to achieving their sustainability and carbon reduction goals.’
OCL can deliver on-site processing, which cuts reliance on the transportation of waste, and permanent recycling hubs across the UK that can serve multiple projects at a time, ‘enabling what typically would be considered waste by one project, to get a fresh lease of life across other client activities’.
OCL Regeneration managing director Stuart Gready (pictured, left) said: ‘The trust and respect between the two businesses continues to grow, true collaboration is at the core of what we achieve together, and we see a significant opportunity to work more closely together in the future.
‘As such, we've made this a formal agreement to help our teams drive it through our own businesses and across existing and prospective clients. Together we can accelerate innovation and change, which is hugely important in our efforts to catch up with and combat climate change.’
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