Meeting Demands of the Sector's Green Agenda; by Dr Miles Watkins, Director of Group Environmental and Corporate Social Responsibility for Aggregate Industries

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Byline: By Dr Miles Watkins

Each year the UK construction industry uses almost 280 million tonnes of aggregates as raw construction material. A quarter of this - some 70 million tonnes - is produced from recycled and secondary resources, and attention is increasingly being directed at further promoting their use as sustainable, cost-effective and practical substitutes.

With major infrastructure projects like the 2012 Olympic Games recognising the value and importance of these more sustainable aggregates, there has never been so much focus on the sustainable credentials of a company and the desire to work with like-minded manufacturers and suppliers.

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