Glendinning is wholly committed to managing and developing its operations in a sustainable manner for the benefit of its customers and communities across the Westcountry and beyond. Our goals for sustainability cross all areas of our business as follows:
Glendinning strive to manufacture in an environmentally responsible manner and we source products and services locally wherever possible.
Our commitment to sourcing locally is also reflected in our support for the principle of reducing the distance that minerals travel across the UK by encouraging companies and individuals to buy locally, thus reducing carbon consumption.
The UK Government has set a target to decarbonise the UK economy by 80% by 2050. The minerals industry certainly has its own part to play with the transportation of minerals accounting for just over 32% of the industry's CO2 output.
The UK Mineral's Forum [link to ‘Shaping UK Minerals Policy’] report, September 2009, outlines two potential approaches to trying to reduce the distance minerals travel, as follows:
- Tougher planning policies to reinforce the proximity principle by giving preference or greater weight to using local sources, notably for aggregates, which are widely available; and
- Intervention to give preference or added weight to local sources for minerals.
Therefore, an effective method of reducing your carbon footprint is to buy locally - source your building products from a local manufacturer.
We are actively involved in the reprocessing of site arisings and road planings, and can offer recycled products as viable alternatives to those made with quarried stone, thus reducing the demand for new primary raw materials. In addition to this, we have also developed a cold-lay asphalt material which utilises recycled products. Find out more about Enviromat™.