The Wales Environment Trust is a member of the ReMaDe Network UK. The Remade Network UK connects organisations and programmes working to find uses for waste as a resource and to minimise its impact on the environment by identifying alternatives to landfill.
Need for Recycling
The Wales Waste Strategy and the Assembly’s Sustainable Development Scheme both stress the need for waste minimisation and the prudent use of natural resources.
Future increase in total demand for aggregates over and above present levels of demand should be met, wherever possible, from secondary sources or recycled materials.
The need for change in the pattern of supply through increased use of secondary and recycled materials is particularly important in Wales, where recycling for use as aggregates has not been as advanced as in other parts of the UK.
Mineral waste, secondary and recycled materials are available in plentiful supply in certain areas of Wales and their use as aggregates should be maximised.
