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[0] 11 [Description] Because of the massive amount of concrete needed to build this one million square foot facility, the impact of trucking concrete in from local batch plants would have been very costly. The negative impact on roads and air quality would have been quite significant as well, since delivering all this concrete from the nearest concrete plant would have required at least 75,000 miles of truck trips. A concrete batch plant was placed in an area already cleared for an EPA parking lot, so no additional land was disturbed. No concrete transport was made beyond the confines of the site – preventing the combustion of at least 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel. On-site mixer truck wastes were reclaimed at the batch plant and recovered aggregates were reused in later concrete batches. Wash water was contained on-site in a closed loop system. The on-site batching was a zero waste operation. [Technology] 
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