Breedon Group plc will open two new waste recovery and recycling sites in the UK – enabling customers to divert clean construction and demolition waste from disposal and have it processed into high-quality, recycled aggregate.

The essential construction materials provider’s two sites in Ashbury, Greater Manchester, and Costessey, Norfolk, will be ready to receive material from March 2026. 

They will accept clean, uncontaminated recyclable materials from construction and demolition activities, including stone, brick, rubble, clean concrete and utility waste. These will be processed on site and made available to customers as recycled aggregate, reducing the need for primary and virgin aggregate and providing a more sustainable solution.

The move builds on Breedon’s established network of five inert waste sites across the UK, which have been in operation for more than a decade supporting lawful landfill and quarry restoration activity. The addition of recycled aggregate production at Ashbury and Costessey further strengthens Breedon’s ability to support customers looking to recover and reuse materials. 

Chris Burgess, Circular Economy Commercial Manager at Breedon, said:

“Ashbury and Costessey represent the company’s first facilities focused on producing recycled aggregate from customer and operational residual materials. These new sites mark a crucial step in how we’re developing our offering of more sustainable products and solutions through developing our commitment to a circular economy approach. 

“By repurposing unused space at existing operations, we’re creating practical routes for clean construction materials to be recovered and reused, while continuing to serve our customers with the products they rely on today.

“We want to support our customers in managing residual materials more sustainably, while also using innovative methods to create value from our own operations.”

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