60 Delegates Examine Dig & Dump Solutions
A ScotAsh seminar on Sustainable Alternatives to Dig and Dump
was a huge success.
More than 60 delegates attended the event, at the Inchyra Grange Hotel, in Grangemouth.
Dunfermline and West Fife MP Willie Rennie praised ScotAsh's commitment to sustainability in his opening address. Speakers on the day included an impressive line up of geotechnical experts and remediation specialists including Shrief Kabis (previous page) and David Rylance from Lafarge North America and Edwin Petrie of Holcim Cement, Australia.
Other speakers included Leon Stanger of Clarke Bond GeoEnvironmental, Barry Ellis of CELTIC Brownfield, Duncan Fraser of Edinburgh City Council and Colin Cunningham, Director of the Contaminated Land Assessment and Remediation Centre, University of Edinburgh.
The seminar was chaired by Russell Blackhall, Director of Proficio Technology. ScotAsh has collaborated with Proficio in a number of recycled roads projects, including repairs to the historic carriage drive at Finsbury Park, London and Edinburgh's Royal Mile.
The use of ScotAsh stabilisation products enable roads to be repaired using around 90% of the material dug out, saving aggregates such as whinstone, reducing landfill and saving literally hundreds of lorry movements. ScotAsh MD Peter Quinn said: "Every year hundreds of thousands of prime aggregates are dug up and dumped due to road repairs - these are materials that members of the public have paid for through income tax and community tax.
"We're urging councils and others involved in road repairs to think about how much tax payers' money they are wasting and look at stabilising and re-using high grade aggregates instead of throwing them away."
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