Leach Lewis Recycling have joined forces with Aquablast, a Suffolk based company whose primary business for the last 20 years is Ultra High Pressure (UHP) water blasting surface preparation on the hulls of ships, oil rigs and in oil refineries both in UK and overseas.

With our assistance, they have developed a unique single process system to recycle tracks. The tracks are automatically fed into a processor, where they are blasted with a series of 60,000 psi rotary waterjets.

These jets have to reach velocities approaching Mach 3 in order to break down the hard rubber compounds, and the benefits of our system are massive compared to any other potential system.

Once the track has emerged from the processor, it will be stripped of the rubber completely, leaving spotlessly clean steel links and wire.

The rubber product that remains is 100% guaranteed wire free, and has already been ground down into under 0.5mm rubber powder form, which can be recycled into a wide range of products ranging from grouts and adhesives to rubber modified asphalt and even as a wear-resistant dressing for heavily trafficked grass on golf courses and racecourses.