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A drop of the brown stuff

By: Language: English Series: Construction Manager ; March 2008, 30-31(2)Publication details: 2008Subject(s): Summary: Reports on one of WRAP's 24 trailblazer projects in the UK designed to illustrate the financial and environmental benefits of specifying locally-sourced quality compost in brownfield projects. The remediation of a 200 acre former steelworks site (Ebbw Vale, Wales) involves making topsoil by recycling materials from the site and combining them with compost.

Reports on one of WRAP's 24 trailblazer projects in the UK designed to illustrate the financial and environmental benefits of specifying locally-sourced quality compost in brownfield projects. The remediation of a 200 acre former steelworks site (Ebbw Vale, Wales) involves making topsoil by recycling materials from the site and combining them with compost.