Lafarge cement plants increasingly use waste derived fuels, including scrap tyres and bio mass.

able to... recycle scrap tyres as a fuel source which reduces use of fossil fuels and provides an efficient and effective solution to scrap tyre disposal in the UK. Placed end-to-end in a line the UK's annual waste tyres would stretch from London to Sydney, Australia and back. Changes like this make Lafarge one of the leading users of waste-derived fuels.

Lafarge is helping the environment and reducing its own waste by 80% (We’re also reducing customers’ waste because our packed product is plastic bound – so there’s less cement waste at building yards and sites)

able to... reduce water use by 95%. Lafarge Cement's Cauldon Works won two prestigious national awards - the Chief Executives Award and the Gold Award in the Water Save category - from the Environment Agency, for its commitment to save and recycle water. You can read the full press release here

Equivalent to filling 1,190 Olympic swimming pools a year

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Conserving natural resources by using recyclable by-products from other industries.