Quality standards for recycled aggregates
Quality management processes and the standards that you should follow when producing recycled aggregates.
If material is still classed as waste, waste controls apply (for example, duty of care, appropriate permits or exemptions, and registered carriers where required).
If you meet the ‘end of waste’ criteria in the Aggregates Quality Protocol, the output is normally treated as a product rather than waste for the specified uses.
However, you should continue to handle materials with care to ensure that you don't face enforcement action for causing pollution.
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has also published checklists and guidance documents to help those producing and buying recycled aggregates to comply with the quality protocol. These provide:
- detailed guidance on the requirements for producers and specifiers of sustainable aggregates
- a roadmap that enables producers to prove that their material has been produced in a way that complies with the quality protocol
- guidance which allows end users to tell the difference between suppliers