Environment policies are nowadays directed to the achievement of a correct balance between the due respect to environment and the industrial requirements. These two elements indeed are not in contrast as it could appear by a superficial point of view, if the relationship between them is faced in an earnest and professional way. If considering, for example the production of cement, we are aware of how it has positive effects over our ecosystem. Many refuse produced by other industrial activities or communities in fact can be re-employed as substitute raw materials, as correctives for cement or alternative combustibles, without affecting the quality of products. This purpose it must be underlined that both the recovering as raw material or as correctives and

 

thermal recovering in cement production installations, present, both absolutely and with respect to waste disposal alternatives (tips and/or professional incinerators) many advantages, contributing to naturals sources preservation as fossil fuel and minerals. Indeed, the cement productive process features are such to ensure the assimilation of the mineral component and the recovering of the energy contained in residuals, while warranting at any extent the absence of negative consequences for environment. It is to underline furthermore that the reemploy does not give rise to any kind of

special installations waste disposal of residuals (solid, mud or liquids). Another important aspect is that concerning the recovering of areas. A practical example about how it can be carried out has been achieved in an area (23 hectares) of bituminous asphaltic rock in the Italcementi plant of Scafa (PE), whose calcareous material covering is employed for cement production by the same Company. This territory is in Abruzzo, an Italian region characterised by the presence of three big parks: the Gran Sasso National Park, the Maiella National Park and the National Park of Abruzzo. The mine that borders the Maiella National Park is placed at a nearly five hundred meters altitude and belongs to a wide mining area, a consistent part of which is kept on working. The sizeable part of the area of the Park is at high altitudes and is squeezed between the 400 m. altitude of the lower zones and the 2.793 m. altitude of the Maiella Group where vegetation is formed by mugho pines ( Pinus Mugo ) and wide woodlands ( beechwoods in the high area and Quercus pubescens oak woods a in the lower one); in these ranges of the Apennine, showing massive and cupule - shaped with wide stony and barren surfaces, the limit of the arboreal vegetation is quite low and the vegetation association covering the cacuminal areas are generally formed by scanty pastures. The harshness of theses zones influences obviously the human presence, very reduced, and that for long stretches has not modified the existing natural equilibrium; in fact mountains are bare and few hospitable at an extent that the local populations have looked for employment and income sources elsewhere. The “recovering” works started-off at the end of the 70s when remodelling interventions have been initiated and having brought to the final morphological situation in wide areas, previously mined. The ground where plantation and seeding operations have been carried out was poor of nutritional elements and had a very coarse structure; in the greatest gradient areas it must have been done some holes following filled with vegetable earth, arboreal vegetation has been grounded while where the inclination and whereas the substratum kind allowed it, it has been carried out conifer plantings and wide surfaces have been consolidated by the means of planting out bushes and false acacia trees (Robinia pseudoacacia). To better the environment condition and to favour the re-naturalization of this area, it is being carried out by now systematic interventions, by the means of cultivation operations as thinning out, fertilizing, species replacement and underwood cleaning in order to favour the rooting of more connatural vegetable associations and in balance with the surrounding environment.

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