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monitored during and after the project. The funding body should take action if
expected outcomes were not achieved. Finally, information
Principle 4: Maximise environmental effect from available funds
Quantitative and qualitative information on projects’ costs should be submitted in a
standard format in order to allow verification, analysis and indicate costeffectiveness.
Principle 5: Leverage additional finance
Public funds should not fund 100% project costs and the percentage of project costs
borrowed, or financial leverage, should be used to assess the programme’s
performance. Public funding should not distort competition in the market.
Quantifying the overall environmental benefits of a fund is very difficult because
although case studies are usually available they are very succinct. The following
examples aim to give an overview of the environmental impacts.
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In 2007 a WRAP report suggested that the capital investment they had provided so
far had resulted in the addition of more than 3.6 million tonnes of annual recycling
capacity. As well as this significant increase in capacity the focus has been on
increasing the production of high quality recycled aggregate
With the announcement of the fund in Scotland and Wales being in 2008 the projects
will not yet have been completed. However, the fund’s environmental impact in
England can be illustrated via the following short case study produced by WRAP:
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� Eppleton Quarry Products Ltd received £101,000 for mobile plant for the
extraction of secondary aggregates from slag. This resulted in an increased
capacity which rose from 125,000 tonnes to 505,000 of quality recycled
aggregate. The environmental benefits of this are two-fold: as a direct
result of the project a greater quantity of waste is diverted away from
landfill in order to be recycled into quality aggregate material; and there is
potential for this to reduce the demand for virgin aggregate. The extraction
process can create noise, it’s unsightly and requires transportation from
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A summary report of the ALSF in its first four years, since 2002, was published by
Defra. The main environmental achievements were:
� funding equipment with the capacity to recycle 1.7 million tonnes of
construction and demolition waste or process secondary aggregate;
� making improvements at or around existing or disused quarries; and
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