Red Materials Ltd. Case Study: Packington Landfill ...Packington Landfill, the Suez-run site near...

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Closing Out a Historic Landfill PACKINGTON LANDFILL Screening Operations at Suez Packington April 2016 Red Materials Ltd. Case Study: Packington Landfill Site: Packington Landfill is located just off the M42 to the west of Birmingham, opposite the Birmingham NEC. Images from www.google.co.uk/maps Client: Suez UK Site: Packington Landfill, Packington Lane, Meriden Start Date: 2012 Completion: to present Waste Streams: Inert and Non-hazardous Volumes: over 1 million m³ Packington Landfill, the Suez-run site near Birmingham, once the busiest in Europe, stopped accepting material in February 2015 after 50 years of operation. It is estimated that 35 million tonnes of waste are buried underground within its 385 acre site. Remediation work at Packington will restore the area with meadows, woodland areas, lakes and public footpaths allowing locals views over the airport and the city of Birmingham. Red has worked alongside Suez undertaking the restoration work here since 2012. Accepting Inert restoration Soils and Non Hazardous materials, Red are contracted to import and screen more than one million m³ soils for the sites remediation. Red undertakes the following at Packington: Initial assesment of site investigation reports Classification of waste streams Facilitating haulage requirements Handling and placement of waste streams Processing soils for recovery. RED MATERIALS LIMITED Registered in England Registered No. 05734823 T: 01926 679272 W: www.redmaterials.co.uk E: [email protected]

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Closing Out a Historic Landfill

PACKINGTON LANDFILL

Screening Operations at Suez Packington

April 2016

Red Materials Ltd. Case Study: Packington Landfill

Site:

Packington Landfill is located just off the M42 to the west of Birmingham, opposite the Birmingham NEC.

Images from www.google.co.uk/maps

Client: Suez UK

Site: Packington Landfill, Packington Lane, Meriden

Start Date: 2012

Completion: to present

Waste Streams: Inert and Non-hazardous

Volumes: over 1 million m³

Packington Landfill, the Suez-run site near Birmingham, once the busiest in Europe, stopped accepting material in

February 2015 after 50 years of operation. It is estimated that 35 million tonnes of waste are buried underground

within its 385 acre site.

Remediation work at Packington will restore the area with meadows, woodland areas, lakes and public footpaths

allowing locals views over the airport and the city of Birmingham.

Red has worked alongside Suez undertaking the restoration work here since 2012. Accepting Inert restoration Soils

and Non Hazardous materials, Red are contracted to import and screen more than one million m³ soils for the sites

remediation. Red undertakes the following at Packington:

Initial assesment of site investigation reports

Classification of waste streams

Facilitating haulage requirements

Handling and placement of waste streams

Processing soils for recovery.

RED MATERIALS LIMITED Registered in England Registered No. 05734823 T: 01926 679272 W: www.redmaterials.co.uk E: [email protected]