Climate change

Tarmac's climate change strategy takes a comprehensive approach to energy management and carbon footprint reduction. We have set long-term targets to reduce our energy and carbon emissions and explore renewable sources of energy.

As well as complying with all Government legislation, we focus on minimising the energy and carbon used in the materials, products and services we provide. We do this by helping customers to adopt a 'whole-life' approach to specification and design, and by promoting the energy-efficient properties of our products.

Tarmac is also proactively exploring ways to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions through the use of waste-derived fuels, renewable energy and investing in energy-efficient technologies.

Energy management

Finding ways to save energy is central to our sustainability strategy. We are doing this by:

• Focusing on developing energy saving solutions
• Investing in modern plant and technology
• Reviewing energy efficiency and in-use energy saving benefits that our product ranges deliver.

Greenhouse gas management

Our approach to reducing carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions includes:

• Improving energy efficiency
• Developing our waste-derived fuels programme
• Increasing our use of renewable energy
• Looking for carbon savings through transport and logistics 
• Supporting the development carbon capture and storage technologies

Carbon Trust Standard

We are very proud to have Carbon Trust Standard certification across our whole UK business as this is the UK's leading independent certification. It is based on a rigorous, independent assessment which certifies that we have measured, managed and reduced our carbon emissions across our operations and are committed to reducing them year on year.