As many of you will be aware we hosted a Recycled Aggregates and Circular Economy webinar in the UK last week which was attended by over 235 participants, and reflects the importance of this topic in helping our business achieve its global ambitions of becoming a net zero business by 2050.

There were a range of speakers talking about a number of important topics that will help us to understand the steps that we can take and some of the challenges that we need to overcome in order to meet our own ambitious targets to increase the volume of recycled aggregates being used in our concrete. This will ensure that the UK plays its part in promoting a circular economy and achieving our Future in Action objectives.

If you missed the webinar but want to watch the recording you can do so by clicking HERE, we’ve also made the accompanying slides available in PDF format for you to view HERE.

Highlights from July

The level of engagement both during and following the Recycled Aggregates webinar has been very encouraging and we’d like to provide some updates on the activities that are now taking place:

• We have progressed to eight plants now consuming recycled aggregates across South West, Midlands, Yorkshire & North West markets. We’re now targeting sources within the Home Counties (Kettering due to start imminently), followed by London & South Coast.
• The numbers for the month of July, up to and including the 10^th, are laid out in the table below (627m3 sold containing recycled aggregates, in which 603 tonnes were consumed).
• We are on target for a record month and the fourth month in a row showing an incremental growth in tonnes consumed and total number of sites consuming.

Continuing to track our progress

We’ve provided links to the following PowerBI reports to allow you to track our progress and performance with regards to testing opportunities and overall volumes of aggregates consumed in our Readymix. The following links will allow you to access these.

Progress with testing of recycled aggregate sources: Circular Economy Opportunity Tracker

Progress with recycled aggregates consumed: Recycled Aggregates Used / Concrete Volumes Produced (*Please note you may need to request access to this report once you have clicked on the link)

Got any questions?

Please just ask – we would encourage anyone wanting to follow up on any of the topics relating to recycled aggregates to contact either: Steve Sheller (stephen.sheller@cemex.com) or Michael Haines (michael.haines@cemex.com) who will be able to help with your enquiry.

Thanks once again to everyone who attended on the day, your support is greatly appreciated.