BRITAIN'S tax-payers are set to win on aggregate, thanks to a revolutionary recycling process, pioneered by a North Yorkshire company.
The process, used for the first time on a British motorway this week, could knock millions of pounds off the cost of motorway reconstruction.
During work near Junction 37 of the M6 in Cumbria, Roadstone Recycling, of Brompton-on-Swale, is reus-ing more than 2,000 tons of old road surface.
The old tarmac will become the base for the new inside lane of the motorway rather than being buried at a local landfill site, saving an estimated 100 lorry journeys to and from the site.
The construction industry will also benefit, as a new tax introduced in July has seen the cost of newly-quarried aggregates soar by £1.60 a tonne.
Gary Cook, managing director of Roadstone Recycling's parent company, Bruce Cook Road Planning, said: "This project represents a huge breakthrough in road recycling.'
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