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Waste Management
A2/M2 woodland management where trees removed from the site are used for recycling.
Issue
The construction, maintenance and operation of the trunk road network consumes large quantities of resources. The Government's policy for sustainable construction highlights the need for the more effective use of these resources.
Objective
To develop techniques to ensure that the Trunk Road Network is managed in the most sustainable manner, conserving the existing resource, generating less waste and removing barriers that prevent or inhibit the use of secondary or waste materials.
Preferred options for minimisation of waste
Actions will include:
- Identifying where waste is being generated; to establish benchmarks for the quantity of waste produced in trunk road management.
- Conserving existing resources and reducing quantities of waste.
- Commissioning research aimed at prolonging the life of roads and other structures.
- Cooperating more closely with industry to identify barriers to the reuse or recycling of highway materials and to encourage the use of secondary and waste materials where practical.
- Amending technical specifications to encourage use of local and lower grade materials in highway construction as a means of reducing demand for new materials
