Tarmac is the leading supplier of heavy building materials in the UK, providing solutions in all areas of everyday life, for everyone. We exist for our customers we are committed to them and we work to ensure that our act......Tarmac is the leading supplier of heavy building materials in the UK, providing solutions in all areas of everyday life, for everyone. We exist for our customers we are committed to them and we work to ensure that our actions are aligned to their needs. Tarmac has 135 quarries including 13 wharves, 73 asphalt plants, 172 concrete plants of which 15 are precast concrete sites and 36 recycling plants. Tarmac has 1,228 contracted hauliers. Tarmac has planted over 111,500 trees in the last five years, thats over 60 trees planted every single day. Over 14,000 metres of hedgerows have been planted in the UK by Tarmac in the last five years, an average of 54 metres planted every week. Many products we take for granted - from paper to glass, ice cream to toothpaste - are manufactured using materials derived from quarrying. Tarmac recycles around 200,000 tonnes of concrete every year - equivalent in weight to 500 jumbo jets. Tarmac recycles 1,940,000 tonnes of construction, demolition and excavation waste and uses 1,300,000 tonnes of this waste to restore our quarries every year. Last year, Tarmac manufactured eight million tonnes of asphalt, enough to pave the Great Wall of China ten times over. To build an average home takes approximately 60 tonnes aggregate. On average we use nearly 4 tonnes of aggregate per person per year. A typical family indirectly uses a lorry load of aggregates annually.