BuilderScrap

BuilderScrap provides a free website for a wide range of different reusable materials, another which specialises in soils and aggregates is Earth Exchange.

BuilderScrap, based in Wirral, was created by builders for builders to ensure that it is fully aligned with the industry. It not only allows a platform for passing on and finding materials but also assists in demonstrating the savings that can be made for both a company's environmental and social commitment. One such example is the development of a Carbon Calculator along with the Centre for Construction Innovation in order to produce a carbon and tonnage calculator to quantify the amount of carbon saved by reusing materials.

Construction, renovation and demolition projects produce 20% of our country's waste - about 120 million tonnes a year. Even worse, at least 14% of construction waste is unused material, not damaged, not second hand, just brand new leftovers. WRAP, the Waste and Resources Action Programme estimates that about £1.5bn worth of goods moves straight from the builders' merchant to the building site to landfill, without ever having been used in a building. By anyone's standards that's a shocking waste, and one that can be avoided.