Torr Quarry (Somerset) - Example
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- Created on: 31-05-19 11:54
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- Torr Quarry - Somerset
- Impacts on Industry on the physical environment
- Manufacturing plants can look dull and affect the visual effect of the landscape
- Industrial processes and waste pollution can cause air, water and soil pollution
- The transport of raw materials and manufacturing products increases levels of air pollution.
- How can industrial development be more sustainable?
- Care in design can reduce the visual impact
- Technology can be used to reduce harmful emissions
- Desulphurisation can remove harmful gases
- Heavy fines can be imposed when pollution incidents occur
- Quarrying in the UK
- Impacts
- Destroy natural habitats
- Pollute water courses
- Scar landscapes
- Making it more sustainable
- Recycling is encouraged
- Companies are expected to restore or improve a quarry after it has been used
- Impacts
- It is a limestone quarry in the Mendip hills. It employs over 100 people and contributes more than £15 million towards the local economy each year
- Example of how modern industrial development can be more environmentally sustainable
- The quarry is being restored to create wildlife lakes
- 200 acres of the site have already been landscaped
- Regular monitoring of noise, vibration, dust and water quality
- Rail transport of quarried rock minimises the impact on local areas and villages
- Impacts on Industry on the physical environment
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