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Builders exchange website which provides an online platform to sell or dispose of unwanted building material, especially fixtures and fittings. It is free and materials can be sourced using the website’s extensive search facility. Another excellent resource which allows unwanted materials to be reused rather than recycled or landfilled.

 

Earth Exchange is an excellent web-based resource which allows organisations to offer unwanted materials such as crushed concrete, top soil, bricks and slates to those companies looking to procure similar materials. The website provides accurate information on the type, size and location of materials available. Using Earth Exchange allows new developments to aquire the leftover materials resulting from other projects underway nearby. This process prevents excessive waste and reduces the burden on the natural environment to provide virgin aggregate and other related materials to the construction industry.

 

Another builder’s exchange website which facilitates the sale or disposal of unwanted building materials and goods. Free to register and capable of saving builders considerable time and money.

 

The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) is the focal point for the road surfacing industry. It was formed in 2008 following the merger of the Road Surface Dressing Association, the High Friction Surfacing Association and the Slurry Surfacing Contractors' Association. An additional organisation, the Allied Industry Sector (now known as the Specialist Treatments Sector) was created for companies associated with surface treatments who wish to be aligned with the aims of the RSTA.
The RSTA aims to raise awareness of the range and benefits of road surfacing treatments and promote work force competence, safe working and sustainability practices. It champions industry professionalism, innovation and best practice.

 

Sustainability expert Bioregional has set up a number of Recycle It Yourself (ReIY) centres across the country. Operated by small scale businesses, community interest companies and charities the centres collect unwanted building materials and products from construction sites and sell them onto the general public. ReIY collection offers a cost-effective alternative to conventional disposal with reuse preferential to conventional disposal. Funded by WRAP, the ReIY initiative is based on the well established North American ‘Building Material Reuse Centres’. ReIY centres are located in Glasgow, Chatham, Aldershot and Brighton.



Waste and Resource action Plan’s (WRAP) website offers a considerable amount of advice and information about reducing construction waste.

 

WRAP’s sister organisation – Construction Resources Waste Platform (CRWP) is tasked within ensuring the Construction Industry has a say about how funds raised by the landfill tax are allocated. It is also tasked with promoting the services and support available for the construction industry.

Affresol Ltd produce innovative houses from 'Thermo Poly Rock' - a material formed from specially treating waste products that would otherwise have been sent to landfill. This ingenious material is poured like concrete but is much stonger.