Wembley Stadium waste recycled

14 May 2008 05:36am

Waste material from building Wembley Stadium has been turned into four giant mounds in an urban park.

Around a million tons of rubble, clay and soil dug up during the demolition of the old Wembley and the building of the new stadium would usually have been dumped on a landfill site.

But much of the waste from both Wembley, and other major construction projects in London, was instead recycled.

Builders carried 60,000 lorry loads of material to a site near the A40 just outside London.

The busy main road carries thousands of cars a day to Oxford and Birmingham but the noise was a blight on nearby towns.

The four mounds, which are up to 22 metres tall, block much of the noise from the road, and are also part of a recreation park built on old wasteland.

And because Ealing Council charged up to £90 per truck to dump the waste the project cost taxpayers absolutely nothing.

Named Northala fields, it contains the small hills - which look like small tors - fishing lakes and a small area of woodland.

As builders had to carry the waste material a short distance rather than carting it to landfill sites, the project is also eco-friendly.

Architect Peter Fink, from Form Associates, which designed the project said he wanted to build a "multi-layered recreation area" and "urban fishery".

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