The team at Atlas Concrete’s Albany Recycling Plant is playing a key role in supporting the Te Hōnonga a Iwi restoration at Rosedale Park, allowing restoration personnel to use its premises to take gear into the 2024 planting area at the project site.
Rosedale Park borders the Atlas site, and Recycling Manager Graydon Scheres says the company was keen to get involved.
“Atlas Concrete likes to support great causes in the community and the restoration of Rosedale Park is a great initiative.”
Project co-ordinator Nicky Shave says a crew from Atlas also helped shift the IBCs (bulk containers) that Te Hōnonga a Iwi uses for its irrigation system across to the new area and has agreed to store them on Atlas land for the next two years.
“This will enable us to water the microbiome in our bioreactors, which turn pest plants and mulch from the restoration site into compost inoculant which supports the healthy growth of our cover crops and our trees,” Nicky says.
The Atlas Albany site is part of the company’s recycling division, which aims to reuse all concrete waste. Teams at the site bordering Rosedale Park recycle concrete into aggregate. This helps extend the life of waste or demolition concrete and diverts it from the landfill, Graydon says.
“Atlas Concrete has been an industry leader in sustainability as we recycle 100 per cent of our concrete waste in all forms. We are continually trying to innovate and find solutions within the concrete industry to be more sustainable and limit the impact the concrete industry has on the environment. Atlas Concrete has four recycling sites, two within its concrete plants and two single purpose recycling sites.
“Our whole purpose at Atlas Recycling is based on sustainability and trying to limit all waste on site. We do this by trying to provide a high-quality substitute to virgin aggregate which is a more sustainable option for the contractors and civil works in our local area.”
Nicky says Te Hōnonga a Iwi is delighted to have Atlas on board. “We need more businesses to collaborate with iwi, community groups and landowners to do this important mahi which will help stop the health of our landscapes, waterways and seas declining further.”
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