The manufacturing process produced a large quantity of waste sand, which the company sold on to cement manufacturers.

This has consequences in mineral exploration, for mine depth, the energy intensity of mining, and the increasing quantity of waste rock.

By doing so, they aim to reduce the quantity of waste to landfill each year.

The group has been tentatively identified as a stone workshop due to the great quantity of waste product found there, and it may have produced flint cores.

When compliance costs are coupled with an increased quantity of waste and local opposition to disposal, they generally produce drastically increased disposal costs for hazardous waste.