Water / Biodiversity
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Our vision:
To be recognised as a business that applies best practice in water management and manages sites that provide a valuable natural resource in the local environment.
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Objectives:
Ensure sustainable use of land, maximising the benefits for biodiversity and ecosystem services and minimising impacts on the availability of water in the natural environment.
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Action plan:
Embed the water hierarchy of ‘reduce, reuse, recover, abstract’ before using mains water; improve metering leading to better identify and repair leaks; roll out the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) water monitoring and reporting system. Establish, publish and monitor biodiversity action plans for all quarries.
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2020 targets:
Reduce mains water consumption by 25 per cent per tonne of product. All quarries to implement published biodiversity action plans.
Water
Water use per tonne falls by 20 per cent
We use water as an essential raw material in many of our products, particularly concrete. It is also used to wash sand and gravel, to suppress dust, and to operate lorry wheel washes. Read more
Biodiversity and site stewardship
Action plans in place at every operational quarry
We now have biodiversity and geodiversity action plans (BAPs and GAPs) in place for every quarry that has been active in the last three years and they are all published on our website. Read more
