A five-storey living wall made of recycled aluminium and 1.5t of recycled garden waste is to be built in the City of London to promote circular economy principles.
The City of London Corporation obtained planning permission for the wall at 20 Cousin Lane, which will use two metric tonnes of recycled aluminium.
Planners at the City Corporation, waste firm Veolia UK and Red Squirrel Architects have worked on the design. Cans recovered from Veolia’s Materials Recovery Facility in Southwark, which sorts recycling collected from homes and businesses in the City of London, will be used in the process. They will be shredded and re-cast by a specialist metal fabricator near London into latticed modular honeycomb panels. The aluminium panels will be hung within a grid of recycled steel girders. Compost made from recycled garden waste will be used to plant an extensive wall and planter boxes on the buildings facades.
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