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Sustainable cleaning of railway ballast for recycled aggregate

Last updated on 02 September 2014 3:36

Spent railway ballast is a source of recycled aggregate. Recycling of aggregates contributes to sustainable development by reducing the volume of construction waste going to landfill, reducing transportation and by reducing the impact of primary mineral extraction supplying primary aggregates. Railway ballast is renewed when it loses its geotechnical properties...

Author(s): Anderson P;Cunningham C J;Hearnden R;Barry DA;Philp J.C.

Organisation(s): University of Edinburgh ; Napier University ;

2003

United Kingdom

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