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Environment
news
Milestone
for recycling
In
October, 2000, Castle Cement workers reached a recycling milestone.
At Llay, near Wrexham, the company has processed one million tonnes
of shale, a low-grade coal left over from the former Llay Main colliery.
The processed waste is used as a raw material along with sand and
limestone, to make cement at Castle’s Padeswood works. If the
company is given permission to build a new kiln there, production
capacity will be increased by more than 50%.
For a full comprehensive factfile click
here. (PDF File)
(If you do not have Acrobat reader click the button belolw)
http://www.portcement.org/cem/flashtour.html
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What
the government says:
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“Where waste is produced we must put it to good use, through
re-use, recycling, composting and recovering energy.” Waste
Strategy 2000 for England and Wales, DETR/National Assembly.
• “In this case (cement manufacture), the benefits
to the environment go hand-in-hand with a helpful contribution
... to improving the international competitiveness of the cement
industry.”
Waste Strategy 200 for England and Wales Part 2.
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