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M6 eats itself to avoid tar tax
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• The Highways Agency will turn the M6 into a mini quarry when it starts a .£1.8m resurfacing scheme using recycled asphalt from another stretch of the motorway.
The project is a response to the government's controversial aggregates tax which adds 11.60 to every tonne of newly quarried rock. In addition it will save over 100 truck journeys to and from the site. Over 2,250 tonnes of surfacing from junction 37 at Kendal will be recycled and used as a base for the reconstruction of a two-kilometre section of the southbound carriageway at Killington.
Highways Agency project manager Phil Davies says that Quarries are themselves an environmental concern: This is an excellent example of sustainable development, reducing the effects of land take, noise, dust and pollution associated with the manufacture and supply of normal road building materials.
The use of a special low noise sur face. which will cut traffic noise by the equivalent of halving the traffic flow. will also have significant environmental benefits." he says.