Ecoscreed
Flooring screed with recycled glass content
'Ecoscreed Limited provides high performance flowing screeds, levelling compounds and tile adhesives to the UK construction industry. The company can offer a total “green” specification for any flooring contract. The “ECOSCREEDS” contain up to 65% recycled bottle and container glass.
Each tonne of discarded container and bottle glass in the UK requires 4.0 cubic metres of land-fill space that will not decompose. Our products use 1.2 tonnes of recycled glass per cubic metre applied.
Specify “ECOSCREED” and save 4.8 cubic metres of land-fill for every 1 cubic metre of screed applied.
The Building Research Establishment (BRE) maintains that 39% of the “eco-points” in a building are derived from the floor construction and that 1 “eco-point” could be saved for every 1.38 tonnes of sand not quarried and for every 1.3 tonnes of glass not going to land-fill.
1 m3 ECOSCREED = 4.8 m3 Landfill SAVED!
1 m3 ECOSCREED = 2 Eco-Points SAVED!
The ECOSCREED STANDARD and ECOSCREED RAPID each use up to 100kg of recycled glass per square metre at 50mm thickness. The ECOSCREEDS use recycled bottle and container glass entirely derived from UK glass collections that would otherwise go to land-fill sites. The glass is fully recycled, crushed, graded, sieved and washed to provide an ideal “eco-sand” aggregate for our screeds.'
| Material/s: | recycled glass, sand and cement |
| Environmental statement: | Yes |
| BRE Ecopoints: | unrated |
| Green Guide rating: | unrated |
| Environmental certification: | none |
| 3rd party accreditation: | none |
| 3rd party product endorsement: | none |
| Quality certification: | none |
| Reusability / Recyclability: | n/a |
| Recycled content to ISO 14021: | up to 65% recycled glass (= 100% replacement of sand) |
| Life expectancy | unknown |
| Substitute for or new materials / method: |
screed without recycled content |
| Downloads: | Ecoscreed Standard – Min 30mm (pdf) Ecoscreed Rapid – Min 30mm (pdf) Ecoscreed 24 Cement – Min 50mm (pdf) Ecoscreed Leveller (pdf) BRE Test Report (jpg) |
| Codes of Practice: | |
| Workmanship Work Section: | |
| Country/s of manufacture: | UK |
| UK distribution location: | Leatherhead, Surrey |
| Alternative products: | Screeds |
| Further information: | |
| Information last updated: | Wednesday 30th, April 2008 |
| Manufacturer's evidence rating:* |  |
| Manufacturer: | Ecoscreed Limited |
| Address: | PO Box 111, Leatherhead, KT22 0YQ |
| Telephone: | 01372 842102 |
| Fax: | 01372 842682 |
| Email: | ecoscreed@btinternet.com |
| Website: | www.ecoscreed.co.uk |
The product has been selected on the above average performance in the following areas:
| - | Abiotic depletion | - | Acidification |
| - | Global warming | - | Eutrophication |
| - | Ozone layer deplection |  |
Solid Waste |
| - | Human toxicity | - | Radioactivity |
| - | Fresh water aquatic ecotoxicity | |
Minerals extraction |
| - | Terrestial exotoxicity | - | Water extraction |
| - | Photochemical oxidation |
*Note:
Manufacturer's evidence rating
* One star rating: The product has been included based on an assessment of the manufacturer's own product information.
*** Three star rating: The product has been included on the basis of a third party, independent, Life Cycle Analysis (BRE Ecoprofile or similar).
