Byrne Resources Group takes calculated risk with recycling facility
A FAMILY company has embarked on a multimillion-dollar expansion of its construction and industrial waste-based recycling business as the Queensland Government fast tracks new measures to support the industry.
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A FAMILY company has embarked on a multi-million-dollar expansion of its construction and industrial waste based recycling business as the Queensland Government fast tracks new measures to support the industry.
Byrne Resources Group, which started in Warwick in 1996, will next month open its new state-of-the-art recycling facility at 70 Main Beach Rd, Pinkenba, and has started upgrading its 8ha flagship recycling base at nearby 45 Eagle Farm Rd.
BRG Business development manager Scott Fayle said the family took a “calculated risk” that the Government would amend its waste legislation.
“There is not a lot of recycling going on despite what people say and currently the Queensland market doesn’t allow for advanced methods of recycling,” he said.
“But the family thought they would get a headstart to implement the infrastructure needed and integrate the most innovative technologies in recycling and offer this to the Queensland market which will reduce all waste going into landfill.”
Recently, Treasurer Jackie Trad confirmed the Government would bring back a waste levy in next month’s Budget to drive a recycling and waste-to-energy industry in Queensland.
The move came in response to concerns that local councils would be forced to dump recyclables into landfill after China’s ban on certain foreign waste items.
Currently BRG, which also owns quarries, can recycle everything on a demolition job from the concrete structure down to the basement digs where there isn’t any contamination such as asbestos and heavy metals.
“This includes acid sulfate soils,” Mr Fayle said. “Currently the majority of this spoil earth is tipped off at landfill which will take up to 30 per cent of the airspace in landfills, whereas we have the ability to recycle 100 per cent of this and sell back into the market.”
Mr Fayle said BRG’s purpose-built 3500sq m recycling facility with a 20m high ceiling at 70 Main Beach Rd would be fully automated and managed from a control room.
It was designed to incorporate picking stations, shredders, trommels, screens, density separators, magnets and air burners and will aim to recycle 95 per cent of waste that will go through the facility.
BRG is also in the process of building a new office at 45 Eagle Farm Rd which will also have a purpose-built test lab on site to improve waste product quality control.
Mr Fayle said as part of its expansion, BRG was seeking property development opportunities where there is a need for land remediation.
“We can use our transfer stations to make this an efficient and cost effective exercise for all parties involved,” he said.
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