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A large planted, protagonist of the day II of trees and aggregates
16/04/2009
April 16, 2009
Nine quarries and Catalonia like opened its doors to five hundred primary and secondary students to show how they produce aggregates and to make them partakers of his work of restoration and protection of biodiversity through a crowded planted trees.
During the morning, the students aged 9 to 18 from nine Catalan schools participating in this second edition of the day of the trees and the arid visited the facilities of extraction and treatment of aggregates, where, through a practical lesson to the air freethey could learn the uses of this raw material. At the end of the day, school children contributed to projects of recovery of natural spaces that usually develop the quarries, each one of them, by planting a tree in one of the already exploited areas under restoration.
Jaume Puig, Manager of the gremi d'àrids de catalunya stated: "For years that we are fully involved in the care of the environment in the sector aggregates." For us it is very important to live the quarries with the society, encourage the efficient use of aggregates and minimize the impact of extractive activities. "The day of the trees and aggregates allows us to explain all these efforts we do throughout the year and to make participants more young people".
Schoolchildren have been planted each of them a tree to contribute to the restoration of already exploited areas carried out by the Catalan quarries.
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