Video – All but 0.5% of demolished estate recycled
Monday 14th March 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
Housing minister Deputy Dave Jones with some of the recycled material from the Bouet estate. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1108391)
A CONTRACTOR’S large investment in recycling building materials must not be allowed to go to waste, according to the Housing minister.
Dave Jones was on a show-round of the former Grand Bouet estate on Saturday, which is being demolished and recycled by Paul Rouget Plant Hire, Demolition and Recycling.
The company has made a substantial investment in new equipment to get the job done.
It is currently using £600,000-worth of machinery, including one crusher, two screens and two diggers.
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Are the uPVC windows being recycled which were fitted to the Bouet properties not so long ago? It seems to me that they are being demolished together with the rest of the properties.
BANG! goes more tax payers money, we paid for those uPVC windows to be supplied and fitted and unless they are being recycled, they are now being used as landfill because noone thought to remove them!
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Well…… I have to say that I have seen more thrilling video’s in my time!! But even without watching the video, the message is important.
This site is an example of high recycling in action and the practice should be implemented island wide….. immediately. The buildings are NOT being ‘demolished’, but ‘deconstructed’ and the individual materials returned to production. It is a fantastic example of what is possible …. it is ridiculous that when this particular job is finished in a few months time, the machinery will all have to be sold off island for lack of a site to continue this valuable work.
I thought that we had a waste problem with a tip nearly full and yet here we have a business that can recycle 95.5% of waste from the deconstruction side of the construction industry, but it is not being given the space. Is this what we call ‘joined up government’??
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Rosie
I should think that they’re consulting amongst themselves as to whether or not this good news should form part of the general waste consultation process
Apparently they are determined to get it right this time
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210k spent on a hut/building at Bo-comp last year; wiring, plumbing, the works – knocked down last week.
Wish I could write a letter to the paper but i would lose my job if they new about the waste of money going on up there.
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AN.Other
All the PVC windows and doors are being shredded by the contractor and the shredded plastic is sent to a PVC window manufacturer factory in Norwich for it to be turned into more window and door frames.
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Ray.
Sadly, I don’t think that there has been any consulting about this. Environment have been asked to allow land to be re-zoned to allow this work on a dedicated site but have not agreed to anything. And I don’t think that PSD have been pushing for it either. This situation has been going on for over a year.
I have been participating in the workshops as part of the ‘consultation’ process, and so far from what I have seen, there does seem to be an overwhelming desire amongst the delegates (volunteers), that any waste strategy should have a primary focus on all the forms of waste prevention…… making sure that all efforts to reduce the quantity of ‘residual’ waste are employed. That is exactly what this deconstruction project is doing. Rescuing all the materials that can be re-used and thus preventing them from becoming ‘residual’ waste.
The Bouet is just one site in Guernsey that is being developed. There are loads of others…. but the Bouet is the only one able to reach these impressive waste reduction figures because the machinery is carrying out the work on site.
We don’t have the luxury of waiting until the waste strategy is in place. We need to start immediately to capture all these materials that are coming out of all industrial and construction sites and prevent them from going to Mont Cuet. Initiatives like this need facilitating…. not blocking.
Ray…. it is up to all of us to keep an eye on this and to make sure that something happens soon and if it doesn’t, then we should all start asking questions. It would be utterly ridiculous if Paul Rouget ends up selling this machinery because of a lack of co-operation between departments. If we are not careful we will end up with another bonkers waste ‘solution’ because we are unable to get to grips with the process of prevention.
Digger driver. That is so depressing. And what happened to all the material?
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Rosie
100% agree
It seems to me that progress is being stifled by the over the top insistence on being seen to be fair
Rodney Brouard was prevented from showcasing his solution at his own expense because it would not have been fair to ‘all the others’who had alternative ideas
Paul Rouget is another individual willing to risk his own ( his bank’s?) cash on a solution which certainly appears to work,but he will no doubt come up against the ‘we can’t help because it wouldn’t be fair’attitude pervading this long winded process
I know it is a totally foreign concept for States departments,but for goodness sake JUST GET ON WITH IT
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Ray.
Trouble with Rodney’s system is that it does not encourage ‘reduction’ or ‘prevention’. His system is happy to take as much waste as we want to produce and since the more it takes, the more money there is to be made, it could be argued that there would be an encouragement to stop reducing the amount we generate. In the 21st C. with resources becoming scarce, that would not be a responsible line to take. It would also be very energy hungry.
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