44 | Central Environmental T T Kim Newth Waste-busting work wins supreme award Central Environmental grew out of its partner company, Central Demolition, an established commercial and residential demolition company that has been operating successfully across the lower North Island for more than 13 years. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Proud to be entrusted with construction of Central Environmentals newworkshop alexanderconstruction.co.nz 449 Rangitikei St, Palmerston North Ph. 06 355 0118 www.bayinsurance.co.nz | 0800 229 252 Tauranga | 0800 454 276 Thames Proudly supporting Central Environmental When it comes to protecting your business, local knowledge can make all the difference. We are a locally owned and operated insurance broker servicing client across the whole of New Zealand. Our business is built on the drive to take care of your business, providing you with complete 360° risk solutions. Partnering with you to understand your needs, we provide tailored insurance solutions, where together we achieve the best possible outcomes to protect your business. Fresh from winning the Supreme Award at the 2023 Fielding & District Business Awards along with an Environmental Impact Award, Central Environmental Ltd is set on further growth as a leading recycler and waste-buster in the lower North Island. “It is fantastic to have received this recognition for what we have been striving to achieve over the past five years,” says Ian Butcher, Managing Director of Central Environmental, who is now leading a second phase of development. “We have recently secured funding to enable us to invest another $4 million into specialised new equipment to further expand our recycling capabilities.” Central Environmental grew out of its partner company, Central Demolition, an established commercial and residential demolition company that has been operating successfully across the lower North Island for more than 13 years. “We were transporting so much waste material to landfill and wanted to explore how to reduce that,” explains Ian. “We looked at one or two recycling options before deciding we could do it much better ourselves.” Central Demolition invested over $1m to buy the right equipment needed to kickstart their environmental ambition, initially focused on recycling concrete waste. The Ministry for the Environment granted $750,000 towards the venture and the Manawatū District Council provided land for the plant, (which first needed some remediation work as it was formerly an old sewage settling ponds site). “We cleaned it up, built concrete pads and a workshop, put services down there, bought the crushing and screening plant and started producing concrete aggregate. Since then, it has just grown and grown. We have created a market for that product, with council contractors now using a lot of our aggregate to build roads. In fact, 90% of this aggregate is going into road building. It’s a great product that compacts so well - we’re now diverting from landfill around 80,000 tonnes a year. It also means that the raw resource is not having to be drawn out of rivers or quarries, so that is yet another environmental side benefit.” Waste concrete being recycled into aggregate is not just from Central Demolition’s operations, but also from concrete companies and various builders and contractors across the lower North Island. Regular testing ensures that the aggregate conforms with industry standards, while rigorous dust mitigation systems mean it is also being produced safely. Other waste materials being recycled by Central Environmental include roofing tiles, steel, sheet glass, demolition timber and gib board. Steel embedded in waste concrete is extracted using industrial-scale magnets and
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