RESOURCE management specialist Brewster Brothers has won this year’s VIBES Circular Scotland award.
The company started recycling waste from construction sites in 2017, and such has been the success of its first site near Livingston that the business will soon open a second location near Cumbernauld. Following that expansion, Brewster Brothers will be able to process around 600,000 tonnes of construction, demolition and excavation waste annually.
The awards are a partnership between the Scottish Government, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, the Energy Saving Trust, NatureScot, Zero Waste Scotland and a number of other bodies. The VIBES Scottish Environment Business Awards showcase best practice in the context of businesses reducing their impact on the environment.
Brewster Brothers won the Circular Scotland award. Organisers describe the category as recognising ‘businesses that can demonstrate a strong commitment to implementing the principles of a circular economy’.
Scott Brewster, MD of Brewster Brothers, said, “This award is recognition of the hard work that our employees have put in to help the firm, in its six years of operation, divert more than 1.3 million tonnes of construction waste from landfill. In the course of that work we’ve produced more than a million tonnes of gravels, sands and other aggregates to sell back to the construction sector, and before the end of the year we’ll have doubled our capacity when we open our second site.
“That expansion is testament to the fact that all sectors of the economy in Scotland increasingly recognise that they have a part to play in reducing the nation’s carbon emissions, and use of natural resources.”
