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21 September 2006 -- AmerenUE's Labadie Power Plant opened a concrete packaging facility yesterday that will recycle more than 60,000 tons of fly and bottom ash annually into two million bags of high-quality concrete mix.
The unique project results from a partnership between AmerenUE, Charah, Inc. of Louisville, Ky., and The Home Depot. The concrete mix will be prepared and packaged at the facility in fully recyclable two-handled plastic bags from Charah. It will then be distributed to Home Depot stores in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
The 60,000 tons of ash being recycled for concrete mix represents about half of Labadie's annual production of bottom ash. Ultimately, AmerenUE officials hope to recycle all of Labadie's bottom ash.
In addition to the ash being used to make concrete mix, more than a year's worth of Labadie's bottom ash -- 200,000 tons -- was used as structural fill for the new plant. Charah, an ash management firm, has a similar facility in Virginia, but this is the first to operate in the United States on power plant property, closest to the source of the ash.
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