Brewster Bros Wins Top Green Award

A West Lothian business has been named a winner at the Scottish Environment Business Awards for its work in recycling construction, excavation and demolition waste.

Working with the construction sector since 2018, Brewster Bros has saved over 500,000 tonnes of construction, demolition and excavation waste from landfills.

Using its state of the art facilities, it has created more than 400,000 tonnes of recycled products and prevented 12,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions (equivalents) from being created and leaked into the atmosphere. Overall, this has helped customers save over £1.3m on landfill tax and £800,000 on the aggregates levy.

Brewster Bros has achieved this by investing £3.8 million in one of the largest construction waste recycling plants in the UK at Pumpherston.

A VIBES finalist in 2019, the family business has continued to help their construction customers cut environmental footprints, while also improving their own internal environmental impact. This work has earned it a VIBES ‘Oustanding Achievement Award’ from a shortlist of 12 finalists, which highlights businesses with exceptional commitment to protecting the environment through sustainable business practices.

Managing director, Scott Brewster said: “All of us at Brewster Bros are delighted to receive a VIBES Outstanding Achievements Award and in the last few weeks we have further improved our environmental performance by switching our fleet of trucks and mobile plant machinery to HVO fuel, reducing their emissions by up to an incredible 90 per cent.