Calgary Aggregate Recycling to open recycling plant in Canada

Concrete, asphalt and aggregate recycling firm Calgary Aggregate Recycling Inc. (CAR), Calgary, Alberta, has announced an investment in the development of a new construction and demolition (C&D) materials recycling plant.  

Designed and engineered by wet processing system suppliers CDE, the plant will be utilized for the processing of discarded C&D materials as well as contaminated soils, which CDE refers to as one of Alberta’s most abundant waste streams.  

Set to be commissioned at CAR’s existing recycling facility in southeast Calgary, the company says the wash plant will be the first of its kind in Calgary and one of several plants CDE has installed in North America. CDE says it has similar plants commissioned in the state of New York in 2020, with the second in Maryland in 2022.  

When operational in the fall of 2022, CAR’s soil refuse facility will have the capacity to recycle up to 600,000 tons of excavated material annually. This will divert significant volumes of high-value construction materials from landfills and send them back into the construction industry as premium recycled sand and aggregate products, according to CDE.  

“We are privileged to work alongside Calgary Aggregate Recycling Inc. to deliver a major C&D waste recycling system of its kind in Canada,” says Adrian Convery, business development manager for CDE. “The resulting solution will represent all that we strive for in pursuit of a circular economy, facilitating the diversion of vast tonnages of material from landfill, transforming them into high-grade recycled sand and aggregates for the construction industry, while simultaneously restoring land for future use and driving down CO₂ emissions.”

CAR’s soil refuse system is being designed to divert more than 510,000 tons of soil from landfills and reduce carbon emissions in Alberta by an estimated 22,567 tons annually.