This environmental guidance is for businesses that manufacture mineral products from raw materials to finished articles, including:
- abrasive products, eg abrasive grain, coated abrasives, bonded abrasives and super abrasives
- cement and pre-cast concrete products, eg ready-mixed concrete, mortars and fibre cement
- ceramic products, eg tiles, bricks, household ceramics, sanitary ware, technical ceramics and refractory products
- glass and glass products, eg flat glass, container glass, glass fibre, fibreglass, household glass and specialist glass products
- plaster and plaster products.
This environmental guidance also covers:
- slaking lime
- stone cutting, shaping and finishing.
Environmental impacts of manufacturing mineral products
Businesses that produce mineral products can have a number of impacts on the environment. Examples include:
- air emissions such as dust from unloading, storing and mixing raw materials or oxides and particulates from glass-melting processes
- noise pollution from trucks, deliveries and crushing operations
- waste disposal such as the disposal of high sulphate materials like plaster
- waste management such as crushing concrete or tiles to be reused as raw materials and reusing process wastewater
- water discharges from cleaning, cooling and quenching operations or from wastewater treatment processes.
How can NetRegs help you?
Our guidance could help you to:
- avoid prosecution and receive fewer visits from environmental regulators
- increase efficiency and productivity
- reduce your operating costs
- be more likely to obtain business from government bodies and large businesses that require their business partners to manage their environmental impacts effectively
- improve your reputation amongst staff, customers and the public
- increase the chance of securing funding to expand your business by demonstrating that your environmental impacts are well managed.
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