TRL signs up to the Halving Waste to Landfill Commitment

Date: 23/11/2010

TRL has recently signed up to the Construction Halving Waste to Landfill Commitment organised by the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP).

Halving Waste to Landfill is a voluntary commitment made by organisations in the construction sector to play their part in halving the amount of construction, demolition and excavation waste going to landfill by 2012.

TRL is currently working with a number of clients from both the civil engineering and waste management sectors helping them to implement their Halving Waste to Landfill commitment. It is therefore highly appropriate that TRL should itself sign-up to demonstrate its own commitment to achieving a more sustainable construction industry.

TRL has signed up under the designer and consultant category and will continue to develop guidance on sustainability in construction and disseminate this to industry, encouraging and influencing others to reuse and recycle waste, rather than dispose of it to landfill.

Notes to Editors

TRL has been at the forefront of research into greater sustainability in transport infrastructure over the last twenty years or so, with the development of techniques such as the use of recycled and secondary materials, cold recycling of pavements, crack and seat for concrete pavements and, most recently, recycling of surface course. This is coupled with leading work in the emerging area of greenhouse gas emissions and life cycle analysis in construction, with the development of tools such as the WRAP CO2 emissions estimator tool and asPECT, a carbon calculator tool for the asphalt industry.

Issued by TRL Communications Team
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