Concrete recycling in Logan: what disposal really costs and when to crush on site

If you are looking for concrete recycling in Logan, you are probably standing next to a pile of broken slab, kerb, footings or old pavement and working out where it goes. The default answer is a truck and a gate fee. On any job with real tonnage, that is also the most expensive answer available to you. Here is what the disposal route actually costs in Logan once every line is counted, what crushing the material where it already sits costs instead, and how to tell quickly which side of the line your job falls on.

Logan is generating concrete from both directions at once

Most growth areas produce concrete one way. Logan produces it two ways. To the south and west, the declared priority development areas at Yarrabilba and Greater Flagstone, along with Park Ridge, Logan Reserve and Jimboomba, mean new road building, kerb and channel, hardstand and civil infrastructure going in at scale. Closer to the M1 and the Logan Motorway, the older suburbs around Beenleigh, Springwood, Woodridge and Browns Plains are being redeveloped, which means slabs, driveways, footings and old pavement coming out. Greenfield work and infill work both end with the same problem: a stockpile of clean hard material and a decision about what to do with it.

What the disposal route costs in Logan

Sending clean concrete away is rarely one charge. It is a stack of them, and the stack is what catches people out:

• The Queensland waste levy, currently $105 per tonne on construction and demolition material going to landfill. This applies to material that leaves your site for disposal.
• Gate fees at the receiving facility, which for clean concrete around Brisbane now exceed $80 per tonne.
• Cartage, which on a Logan job means truck time in M1 and Logan Motorway traffic, and is charged whether the truck is full or not.
• Loading plant and operator time spent filling trucks rather than progressing the job.
• Buying replacement road base and bringing it back in, which is a second set of truck movements and a second invoice.

What crushing on site costs instead

We bring the RM 70GO! 2.0 mobile impact crusher to your Logan site and turn the pile into usable product where it already is. Most jobs land around $10 per tonne, and higher-tonnage jobs can come in as low as $8 per tonne. The machine weighs everything it produces on its onboard belt scale, so you are billed on what actually came out, not on an estimate. There is no separate day rate and no operator charge on top.

A worked example: 300 tonnes in the Flagstone corridor

Take 300 tonnes of clean slab, kerb and footings off a civil job in the Greater Flagstone area. Sent to landfill, the waste levy alone is $31,500 at $105 per tonne, before a single gate fee or truck movement. Add facility charges and haulage and the real number climbs a long way past that. Crushed where it sits at about $10 per tonne, the same 300 tonnes costs in the order of $3,000, and you finish with roughly 300 tonnes of compactable road base sitting on your job rather than a hole in your budget. On a subdivision that needs base anyway, that material goes straight back under your own roads and pads.

Two things that work in Logan's favour

The first is distance and traffic. Logan jobs feed onto the M1 and the Logan Motorway, and a round trip to a commercial recycling facility burns far more truck time than the map suggests. The longer that round trip, the more of your disposal budget is spent on driving rather than on disposal. The second is that Logan's growth corridors need base as fast as they generate rubble. In an estate where roads, driveways and hardstand are going in continuously, the material you were about to pay to remove is the same material you were about to pay to import. Crushing on site collapses two line items into one.

When carting is still the right call

We will tell you when crushing does not stack up. Under roughly 20 tonnes, a skip or a removal contractor is usually the better answer, because a crusher cannot pay for its mobilisation on that volume. Concrete is heavy, around 2.4 tonnes per cubic metre, so skips reach their weight limit long before they look full, but for a broken path or a few footings that is still the cheaper path. The other case is material that is not clean. We crush concrete, brick, rock and asphalt. If the pile is mixed with timber, plasterboard, soil or general rubbish, it needs to be separated first or handled another way.

How a Logan job actually runs

• Send us the tonnage, the material type and the site address, and we give you a firm per-tonne price.
• The RM 70GO! 2.0 arrives on a standard float. At about 24 tonnes it needs no oversize permits, escorts or pilot vehicles.
• It is typically crushing within about 20 minutes of arriving on site.
• Your excavator feeds it, or we can discuss plant if you do not have a machine free.
• Product comes off the belt graded and weighed, ready to place or stockpile.

If you have concrete stacking up on a Logan job and you want a straight answer on whether crushing beats carting, send through the tonnage and the address. If carting is genuinely cheaper for your volume, we will say so.