SCREEDS & RESINS
their fundraising efforts, are reinvested into the club and into refurbishments at Uptonsteel County Ground.
Sean Jarvis, CEO of the Leicestershire County Cricket Club, said: “We are extremely proud to say that we are the first cricket club in the UK to get involved in such a project.
“We are a green club and are constantly embracing ways to push the club forward in an environmentally sound way. Turning old plastics into usable materials is an excellent initiative and offsets our eco efficiency targets in terms of our sustainable waste policy.”
The work, which was carried out during March and April last year in time for the season, included creating grey flooring in the Abacus Flooring Solutions sponsored section of the stand.
Sean said: “As we continue to develop the club, we will be replacing some of the seats and if suitable, will be using the plastics from the old seats to create more new flooring within the ground.”
While Abacus Flooring Solutions has already carried out other resin flooring installations at major football clubs such as Wembley Stadium, Manchester’s Etihad Stadium and King Power Stadium Leicester, this is the first cricket ground that the firm has worked with.
˝We will be replacing some of the
seats and if suitable, will be using the plastics from the old seats to create more new flooring.˝
Nick Megson, who set up Abacus Flooring Solutions with his wife Amanda during the Covid lockdown, added: “It is immensely important to us that we tackle plastic waste in a sustainable manner.
“We are so impressed by Leicestershire County Cricket Club’s environmental policy and the work that the club and the volunteers of Friends of Grace Road carry out. It has been a pleasure not only to work with these teams but also to provide the new sustainable surfaces at the ground.”
Nick has worked in the resin flooring sector for more than three decades. He explained that the process involved grinding the waste plastic down to a powder reducing the plastic to a colourless dust, enabling Abacus Flooring Solutions to precisely match the final resin flooring to any colour.
Abacus Flooring Solutions’ multi award-winning advancement not only changes the course of resin flooring production and vastly reduce the volume of plastic ending up in landfill or the world’s oceans, but it also removes silica sand – a dangerous substance when inhaled - from the entire process.
The discovery could also transform many other industrial processes which have traditionally relied on silica sand as a ballast material.
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