Building materials and recycling industry join forces
The trade association arv Baustoffrecycling Schweiz and the FSKB Fachverband der Schweizerischen Kies- und Betonindustrie have merged to form the Fachverband Baustoff Kreislauf Schweiz. Its aim is to ensure circularity and security of supply for building materials.
The trade association arv Baustoffrecycling Schweiz and the FSKB Fachverband der Schweizerischen Kies- und Betonindustrie are joining forces for a sustainable future for the construction and recycling industry. They have joined forces to form the Swiss Building Materials Recycling Association, the new association announced in a press release. Baustoff Kreislauf Schweiz represents more than 1000 Swiss gravel quarries, concrete plants and recycling centres and thus covers over 80 percent of companies active in the extraction and recycling of mineral building materials.
Baustoff Kreislauf Schweiz is convinced that the future belongs to the circular economy. The association wants to use innovative technologies and methods in its own sector to extract mineral building materials in an environmentally friendly way and keep them in circulation. Gravel pits are to be renaturalised as habitats for flora and fauna once gravel extraction has ended. In this way, nature is “naturally integrated into the circular economy”, according to the press release.
At the same time, Baustoff Kreislauf Schweiz is focussing on supplying Switzerland with gravel and concrete. The large and localised areas required for the processing of mineral building materials are becoming increasingly scarce due to protection regulations and other uses, explains the association. It therefore wants to work to “ensure that the supply of high-quality building materials to construction sites remains guaranteed in the future and that these are professionally processed for reuse”.