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

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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Publication information: Article title: Meeting Demands of the Sector's Green Agenda; by Dr Miles Watkins, Director of Group Environmental and Corporate Social Responsibility for Aggregate Industries. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Birmingham Post (England). Publication date: September 20, 2007. Page number: 11. © 2009 Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd. COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale Group.

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