Quarrying provides raw materials for construction and jobs for remote areas, putting money into the local economy. However, it also causes noise, dust, visual and water pollution. Solutions include using less explosives, building quarries away from homes, monitoring water pollution, covering truck loads, and restricting operations to limit disruption.

1. Advantages and Disadvantages of Quarrying

2. Provides raw materials needed to meet the demands for buildings, roads and cement manufacture. Provides employment, quarrying is a major employer in some remote areas where there are few other opportunities for jobs . More money is put into the local economy from the quarries income. Advantages of Quarrying

3. Many quarrying companies give money annually to local village trust funds which can pay for things like building play areas, making nature reserves and repairing church roofs. In some areas quarrying encourages the growth and development of settlements.

4. Disadvantages of Quarrying There is a lot of noise created Dust pollution – when the rocks are being blasted Visual pollution Pollutants from the quarry can run off into rivers and damage wildlife Lorries may damage country roads and affect wildlife.

5. possible solutions for the disadvantages Use as less explosive materials as possible. Build quarries away from where people live so its harder to see them. Test the river of what your polluting it with and stop using that on the quarry. Bypass the lorries around town and cover the rocks on the lorries with sheets. Restrictions when they quarry e.g. not Sundays or early morning.