About UBU

UBU Environmental Ltd

UBU Environmental Ltd is a family owned and managed business which was incorporated in 1998. Legend has it that the initial purchase of the company’s first truck-mounted road sweeper was a fortunate stroke of serendipity involving a burger van and missed JCB lot at an auction.

2 decades later and UBU are the largest operated road sweeper hire company in the North West, managing a fleet of over 120 Bucher municipal (previously known as Johnston) truck-mounted sweepers, high pressure road jetters, jet vac whale tankers and Precinct sweepers. Our business strategy is very simple in that we believe in continual growth in the area of performance and compliance coupled with a continual reduction in the quantities of road sweeper waste going to landfill.

• A training department run by our in-house Health & Safety Advisor which ensures all operatives are assessed as being competent in Road sweeping operations up to & including NVQ Level 2 & blue CSCS card.
• The highest level of accreditation & pre-qualification in all areas of Health, Safety, Environmental responsibility and Quality to ensure that you know that when you call in UBU you are getting the best possible service on every level.
• A depot with a convenient location which facilitates easy access to all major road networks around the North West and beyond.
• A minute by minute tracking system to give accurate ETA’s and to help maintain the companies service level agreements.

UBU Road sweeper Waste: Innovation and Sustainability

For several years, UBU has been investing and researching into road sweeper and gully sucking waste! It’s a problem that many companies run away from, but here at UBU we decided to tackle the problem head on and look at the options (or lack of them) that were available.

Whilst some solutions met the landfill diversion criteria, they were unsuitable because they couldn’t meet our capacity. Other solutions were too costly or too time consuming and failed at the first hurdle. Other systems worked great in June but were useless in December when the waste had a higher water content …….

The drive for a sustainable solution forced us to look far and wide over many years but we eventually found a company who we believed could help us realise our vision of landfill diversion coupled with material recovery and reuse.

Our recovered materials

Depending on the composition of the feed stock, the treatment facility has the ability to produce up to 50 tonnes per day of washed aggregates and up to 125 tonnes per day of washed sand. The washed aggregate is dewatered and the smaller fraction is separated for further classification to capture valuable metals.

After further removal of contamination, the aggregate is sized into two ranges to allow for use in different applications. UBU Environmental Ltd has been successful in obtaining accreditation for our recovered aggregates and sand which are tested to BS EN standard protocol.

UBU Recycled aggregates and sands offer you an innovative commercial and environmental solution which is highly recommended for a wealth of landscaping and construction projects including Bank Protection, Road Construction, Sub base or back fill and noise barriers.