Hanson responsibly sourced across whole business Hanson UK has been
certified with the Responsible Sourcing of Materials (RSM) standard across all of its product lines.
Hanson’s cement range and its Regen™ ground granulated blastfurnace slag were the final products to receive BES 6001 (RSM) with a rating of ‘very good’. The company already has certification for asphalt, bricks, Thermalite blocks, ready-mixed concrete and aggregates.
Responsible sourcing is recognised within the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) and BRE Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), counting towards the credits required to assess the code level of a building.
Martin Crow, Hanson UK’s head of sustainability, said: We are delighted that we have achieved the standard for all our product lines. It demonstrates to clients, specifiers, distributors and end-users our continuing commitment to high environmental and sustainability standards.”
The BRE Environmental and Sustainability Standard (BES) 6001: 2008 covers the environmental and social issues for organisational management and supply chain management, including all the processes from the origin of raw materials, through all stages of the manufacturing process to point of sale.
Lufthansa launches scheduled flights using biofuel Active climate protection: Lufthansa first airline worldwide to use biosynthetic kerosene in scheduled flight operations
ENWORKS NAMED GREEN NGO OF THE YEAR
ENWORKS, the leading provider of environmental business support to companies across the Northwest of England, has won gold at the BusinessGreen Leaders Award 2011 in London - The organisation was named NGO of the Year.
Judges were won over by ENWORKS hands on support for Northwest businesses that has helped to achieve nearly £3m savings within the year (with almost £1m requiring zero capital investment), plus over 10,000t of CO2e savings.
In the last twelve months ENWORKS identified more than 5,600 projects for improving resource efficiency in Northwest businesses with the potential of delivering annual cost savings of over £34m.
These environmental improvements have also helped businesses to safeguard or create over 60 jobs in the last 12 months and to retain/ secure sales contracts worth £1.3m.
Lufthansa has launched a six-month biofuel trial on regular scheduled flights. A Lufthansa Airbus A321 with the registration D-AIDG will fly the Hamburg-Frankfurt-Hamburg route four times daily. One of its engines will run on a 50/50 mix of regular fuel and biosynthetic kerosene. The biofuel for jet engines has been approved by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). Since biokerosene has similar properties to those of conventional kerosene it can be used for all aircraft types without any need for modifications to the aircraft or its engines. During the test run period, the use of biofuel will reduce CO2 emissions by up to 1,500 tonnes. The biosynthetic kerosene used by Lufthansa is derived from pure biomass (biomass to liquids – BtL) and consists of jatropha, camelina and animal fats. In the procurement of biofuel Lufthansa ensures that it originates from a sustainable supply and production process and that the production of its biofuel is not in direct competition with food production and that no rainforests are destroyed. Lufthansa puts the total costs of conducting the biofuel project at about 6.6 million Euros. The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology has awarded 2.5 million Euros in funding for this project, which is part of a larger project known as FAIR (Future Aircraft Research) set up to examine other issues besides the compatibility of biofuels, including new propulsion and aircraft concepts and other fuels such as liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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Clive Memmott, Chair of ENWORKS and Chief Executive of Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce comments: “This auspicious award will act as an inspiration to ENWORKS. We believe in inspiring businesses to embrace sustainability principles and are honoured that our dedication has been recognised by the judges.”
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