Some of the fastest growing businesses in the world are related to the recycling and waste management industry. As people become more interested in doing things to help the environment, businesses are popping up all over the world to serve those green needs. Governments predict that some of the largest sources for new jobs in the world will come through the advancement of green technologies, as cities will have to undergo major changes to their infrastructures that will involve a bevy of public works projects that will produce thousands of new jobs. Recently work started on an eight million pound rail recycling project in Westbury that will create more than twenty new jobs in the town.
Network Rail aims to use the project to recycle disused track materials which will be used in the south and south west. The site, which is located in Brook Lane, will handle about a quarter of all the disused track materials found in Britain’s rail network. This number will amount to more than thirty thousand tonnes of fixtures and rails, as well as over one hundred thousand concrete sleepers being recycled each year. This will allow Network Rail to re-use concrete sleepers on low speed lines and sidings instead of having to buy them new.
One concern about the site is the large number of heavy goods vehicles that will be moving in and out of the site. This is why the Wiltshire Council made part of the conditions of the application process include a traffic management plan for all of these heavy goods vehicles.
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