By leveraging Boral’s network of recycling facilities, along with our laboratory facilities, and our proven range of lower carbon products, Boral is leading an industry transition to a more circular economy. Boral’s Circular Materials Solution (CMS) is an end-to-end service that delivers practical and genuinely sustainable solutions in the processing and production of both recycled and reclaimed construction materials.

What is a Circular Materials Solution (CMS)? 

A Circular Materials Solution aims to reduce waste, by recirculating previously used products and materials, through a reclamation and recycling service. This service aims to extend the lifespan of those materials by diverting them, where possible, away from landfill and into the production of new more sustainable construction materials. 

Boral’s Circular Materials Solution goes beyond the 'last mile' of only supplying products for our customer’s projects. Boral is currently leveraging its recycling assets to manage construction waste, to create a full circular (economy) solution. 

How does Boral’s Circular Materials Solution (CMS) work? 

Where possible, Boral is actively engaging with our customers projects early, in order to manage construction waste material and reintroduce that recycled and reclaimed material, as new more sustainable products at the construction phase of projects. 

• Construction waste material that is derived from the demolition and excavation phase of projects is transported to a local recycling centre, thus diverting that waste away from landfill and saving waste disposal costs for the project.
• At the recycling centre, the customers construction waste material is sorted, separated, and processed for re-use within Boral products.
• By actively engaging Boral’s technical and sales teams from the outset, customers are able to identify alternative materials that are more sustainable for their project from our recycled, reclaimed and lower carbon product range.
• In addition, when supplying our lower carbon products to a project site, Boral uses a proven supply, pump, and place delivery method, and in the case of concrete for example, any concrete that is oversupplied or not required, that material is returned back to a Boral site for recycling. 

Boral’s commitment to a sustainable future is underpinned by our proven chain of responsibility at all stages of the CMS service. Customers have the confidence in knowing their construction and building waste material will be handled by a reputable organisation that is disposing of, reclaiming, or recycling their waste in an ethical way. Boral also works with customers to ensure any lower embodied carbon solution options identified are fit-for-purpose and will either meet or exceed the customers specifications and requirements.