Leading waste management and resource recovery operator The Alex Fraser Group will invest in a multi-million dollar state-of-the-art recycling facility in Melbourne’s south east.
After an exhaustive process lasting more than eight years, Minister for Planning, the Hon. Justin Madden, formally approved an application from the Alex Fraser Group for the establishment of a new construction and demolition transfer station and associated materials recycling facility at a site in Kingston Road, Clayton.
Alex Fraser Group Managing Director Jamie McKellar said today’s announcement represents a significant boost for the region and for the future of construction and demolition materials recycling in Victoria.
“The approval of the Clayton recycling facility will mean a boost in local employment particularly during the construction phase and long term it represents the growing importance of product recycling and reuse within the construction and infrastructure sectors,” Mr McKellar said.
“The new Kingston Road facility will be among the world’s most advanced, hidden from view in a disused quarry and further enhanced by extensive landscaping of the site and surrounds. The latest engineering, environmental monitoring and scientific control systems will be deployed to manage the new facility.”
The site announcement coincides with the release of an RMIT University study of Alex Fraser recycled concrete. It concludes that reuse of crushed stone aggregates made from recycled concrete produced a green house gas CO2 carbon saving of 65% less than the production of equivalent quarried stone.
Since first pioneering construction and demolition materials recycling in Australia over 21 years ago, The Alex Fraser Group has recycled over 20 million tonnes of construction and demolition materials. Simply stacking this material into a heap it would fill an area the size of the MCG over 812 meters high – almost three times higher than the Eureka Tower. To date this represents enough energy saved to power a city the size of Bendigo for one year and enough steel recovered to build almost four Sydney Harbour Bridges!
The Group has been rewarded with several national environmental awards including the Gold Banksia Award in 1995 and the Prime Minister’s “Australian Business Award for environmental leadership” in 2000.
The new Clayton site will replace the Alex Fraser facility in nearby Tootal Road. |
