Reconophalt™: An innovative asphalt product that contains a combination of soft plastics, toner, recycled asphalt and glass
Details
- Product Type Products
- Regions Australia
Contact
- Graham Henderson +61 2 9468 9700
- Website Visit
- Email info@downergroup.com
ISupplier
- Company Name Downer
- ISupplier Profile Visit
About
At Downer, our customers are at the heart of everything we do.
Our Purpose is to create and sustain the modern environment by building trusted relationships with our customers.
Our Promise is to work closely with our customers to help them succeed, using world-leading insights and solutions.
Downer designs, builds and sustains assets, infrastructure and facilities and we are the leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand.
With a history dating back over 150 years, Downer is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and New Zealand Stock Exchange as Downer EDI Limited (DOW). We are an ASX 100 company that also owns 88 per cent of Spotless Group Holdings Limited (SPO).
Downer Group employs more than 53,000 people across more than 300 sites, primarily in Australia and New Zealand but also in the Asia-Pacific region, South America and Southern Africa.
Sustainability Outcomes
Downer has partnered with Sutherland Shire Council and Close the Loop to set a new benchmark in sustainability and innovation, constructing the first road in New South Wales utilising Reconophalt™, an innovative asphalt product that contains a combination of soft plastics, toner, recycled asphalt and glass. Downer is proud to take a lead role in repurposing soft plastics and glass in asphalt for road construction to create a sustainable, cost effective solution that has improved performance characteristics over conventional asphalt.
The road constructed in Engadine with soft plastics, toner, recycled asphalt and glass in asphalt demonstrates the economic, social and environmental value for products that would likely end up in landfill, stockpiled, or as a pollutant in our natural environments. More importantly, utilising soft plastics, toner, recycled asphalt and glass in road construction proves that with thought leadership in sustainability and partnerships with progressive and environmentally conscious governments, suppliers and customers, we can continue to set new benchmarks in repurposing and recycling waste materials into new streams of use.
Reconophalt™ can support your project to achieve points in ISv1.2 Mat-1 and ISv2.0 Rso-6 by reducing the environmental impacts of your material footprint. In addition, Downer can work with your project to achieve ISv2.0 Spr-2 L3.1 and Spr-3 L3.3 though collaborating with you to create innovative solutions as we did with Sutherland Shire Council.
DEMONSTRATION SNAPSHOT
The road constructed in Engadine with 220 tonnes of asphalt has a greater than 35% total recycled material content with approximately:
-176,000 plastic bag and packaging equivalents
-55,440 glass bottle equivalents
-Toner from 3,960 used printer cartridges
-66 tonnes reclaimed road (asphalt)
Applicable Credits
| IS v1.2 | Inn-1 , Mat-1 , Mat-2 |
| IS v2.1 | Inn-1 , Rso-6 , Rso-7 |
| Mat-1 (ISv1.2) | As outlined within Downers completed Material Circularity Indicator (MCI), completed for its Reconophalt product, Reconophalt has been shown to have enhanced durability, leading to a material volume reduction when compared to other Asphalt products. In addition, the use of Reconophalt offers a re-use option for multiple waste streams, achieving leading sustainability outcomes associated with reduction in the lifecycle impact of those products often disposed and replaced with new quarried product. |
| Mat-2 (ISv1.2) | Downers Reconophalt Product has an EPD completed upon it, which is a type III label under the ISC Operations manual. |
| Rso-6 (ISv2.1) | As outlined within Downers completed Material Circularity Indicator (MCI), completed for its Reconophalt product, Reconophalt has been shown to have enhanced durability leading to a material volume reduction when compared to other Asphalt products. In addition, the use of Reconophalt offers a re-use option for multiple waste streams, achieving leading sustainability outcomes associated with reduction in the lifecycle impact of those products often disposed and replaced with new quarried product. |
| Rso-7 (ISv2.1) | Downers Reconophalt Product has an EPD completed upon it, which is a type III label under the ISC Operations manual. |
| Inn-1 (ISv1.2) | The use of Downers Reconophalt Product contributes to Innovation Challenge 8: Sustainable Suppliers and ISupply. |
| Inn-1 (Isv2.1) | The use of Downers Reconophalt Product contributes to Innovation Challenge 4: Sustainable Suppliers and ISupply. |