Plans have been approved for a plant to recycle waste construction and demolition waste in Salford.
The process will create materials which will be used to build a multi-modal freight facility and distribution park at Port Salford and other construction sites across Greater Manchester.
Salford City Council’s planning committee has approved plans for the Peel L&P Environmental facility which will based at Peel L&P’s Port Salford development off the A57 Liverpool Road in Eccles.
It will house a waste soil wash plant capable of recycling up to 240,000 tonnes per year of general construction demolition waste that would otherwise go to landfill.