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A successful BRMC has been set up in Madison, USA.
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BioRegional, and WasteWISE have
launched a tool-kit to help UK stakeholders replicate North
America’s successful Building Material Reuse Centres
(BMRCs). These will be innovative, often not-for-profit
ventures that reduce building waste and costs whilst creating
much needed construction training opportunities.
If you are interested in setting up a BRMC download the
tool-kit from
www.bioregional-reclaimed.com/get_report.php
Ronan Leyden, of BioRegional commented:” Our expert
team has produced this toolkit so that social enterprises,
local authorities, and building companies can pick it up
and run with it. By setting up a BMRC, building and supplies
companies will save money from waste disposal costs and
training opportunities will be created. There are also great
Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities. There’s
no reason why these Centres can’t be just as successful
as their North American counterparts.”
The tool-kit is based on the success of a 300-strong BMRC
network in North America. It states a strong business case
for why BMRCs can be successfully set up in the UK and provides
helpful details on how they can be run. To further support
BMRCs, BioRegional and WasteWISE are working to establish
a national support network to assist individual BMRCs to
set up, access funding and share learning with others.
BioRegional and WasteWise are keen to hear from interested
organisations and are investigating funding streams both
to help establish the national support organisation and
for individual BMRCs.
Contact: Ronan Leyden, Sustainable Construction Team, BioRegional,
ronan.leyden@bioregional.com,
020 8404 4897 and/or Lewis Herbert, WasteWISE Consultants,
lewis@wastewise.org.uk
01223 411699
Development of the UK specific tool-kit was funded by Defra’s
Centre for Remanufacturing and Reuse and supported by reclamation
specialists MASCo.
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