The issue

We recognise that mineral and other natural resources, such as the water we use in the manufacture of our products and to create the wider built environment, are finite resources and valuable environmental assets. However, without our products our customers would be unable to create or maintain a sustainable built environment today or in the future.

It is important then that our operations are conducted and managed in a responsible and efficient way, to minimise the potential for environmental impact and to ensure that the highest standards of site stewardship are upheld. In doing so, we are able to protect and sometimes enhance the local environment, safeguarding archaeological finds and manage the efficient use of raw materials, waste and water while ensuring compliance with stringent legislation and maintaining our licence to operate.

Tarmac is the UK’s largest quarrying and construction materials supplier and, as such, we have a responsibility to extract our raw materials sustainably and to protect the environments in which we work. We operate quarries and marine dredging operations, which produce aggregates such as crushed rock, sand and gravel. We supply aggregates directly to customers, but we also use them to make other construction products such as cement, ready mixed concrete, asphalt, blocks, mortar, screed and lime. In addition to extracting primary aggregates, we manufacture and use recycled aggregates from construction, demolition and excavation waste at a network of units across the UK.