R&W Gully Waste Recycling Operation

A partnership between MTS and R&W to develop an award winning recycling operation.

MTS have been partnering with R&W Civil Engineering Ltd for many years. In addition to using Waste Accountant to capture all waste movements off the Civil Engineering projects waste accountant is used to manage a comprehensive waste management operation. 

MTS have assissted in the development of two dedicated waste management facilities the first deals with the manufacture of recycled aggregates in accordance with the WRAP quality protocol and MTS dealt with all of the permitting arrangements. 

The second facility is a dedicated gully waste treatment transfer station and MTS were critical in the design of the water treatment and solids treatment. Water is cleaned to river quality and re-used within the gully emptying lorries for use on the highways network. The solid fraction is treated and re-used on highway schemes. 

This recycling operation has receieved multiple awards. The most recent was an innovations award at the constructing excellence awards in 2017. 

In 2018 R&W assisted Amey with an initiative to improve the recording of potholes on the Hampshire County County Council highways network and R&W teams used the MTS developed Pothole Reporter to trial an new rapid setting pothole product.