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Freight upgrade for Grand Union
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THE GRAND UNION Canal in west London is set to become the latest part of the country's waterways system to be restored so that it can carry freight.
British Waterways, Transport for London (TfL) and recycling company Powerday have combined to set up a route for recycling construction waste.
A series of wharves on the canal will allow barges to carry the waste to a new Powerday plant at Willesden Junction.A spokesman for the company says that much of the waste it will take is now travelling outside London to recycling plants as far away as Milton Keynes. We will still use hauliers to carry the waste when the new plant opens, but the journeys will be shorter." he adds.
One of the conditions of Powerday's planning permission for its new plant was a limit on the number of truck journeys, andTfL and British Waterways contributed £1.6m to funding work needed on the canal.
The waste handled by the plant will include old bricks and concrete which are crushed and often end up back in building sites to be used as aggregates.
The canal project is expected to be completed next year.