Introduction

This section contains the output from a major overview project funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. It distils the knowledge gained from over 360 projects funded by the ALSF through MIRO, CLG and English Heritage between 2002 and 2007.

It provides a summary of the most up to date research and projects illustrating good practice, whether funded by the ALSF or from other sources. The reports have been written by recognised experts in their fields and reviewed by industry representatives and other key stakeholder groups. The reports have been designed to be easily accessible and to be widely shared.

Wider application of this knowledge will help the quarrying industry achieve continuing improvements in the sustainability of all aspects of its operations. In particular, it will help to raise awareness of the latest thinking on how the aggregates industry can mitigate the effects of quarrying and the substantial benefits that can be realised both during quarry operations and in their restoration and after use.

To aid the user in finding the relevant review, project report or other item of reference among the large selection of information for dissemination from this website, the review and reports section has been split into the following theme sections.

Theme 1 - Reducing the Environmental Effect

Theme 2 - Sustainable Provision of Aggregates

Theme 3 - Creating Environmental Improvements

Theme 4 - Heritage

Communication

Marine

Each section contains a number of downloadable project reports, reviews, items of reference or hyperlinks to pages on this website and others containing the documents or information.

Please note that, the encompassing nature of some of the projects, means that they maybe listed in more than one theme. The files might also be quite large.

All documents stored on this website are in PDF format, unless otherwise stated. To view these documents a PDF file reader must be installed and available on your computer system. To download such a reader please visit www.adobe.com and follow the links to the Adobe Reader™