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News Release from: British Gypsum
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 September 2007
Environmental milestone for British
Gypsum
British Gypsum has achieved another significant environmental milestone, with the closure of its landfill site at Kirkby Thore, in Cumbria.
The landfill had been in continuous use until June of this year, accommodating largely production waste from the two plasterboard lines on the site The closure is the result of targeted waste reduction initiatives and operational improvements resulting from the company's UK-wide World Class Manufacturing programme, which have progressively cut the amount of waste produced at the site
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 7 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Any waste that is produced is now recycled and reused in the manufacturing process.
British Gypsum Managing Director, Mike Chaldecott said, "The closure of the landfill site is a major achievement in our drive to reduce waste throughout the company.
Not only does this save us money, but it helps us to preserve our virgin gypsum reserves and reduces the environmental impact of the business.
"Eliminating landfill from our business is a key element of our corporate sustainability policy.
It is part of a raft of initiatives, including our recent shift towards increased rail-based delivery of finished products and our GBP120 million investment in new energy and environmentally efficient plants at East Leake and Sherburn-in-Elmet, which are helping us to deliver ever-more sustainable solutions for our customers".
The elimination of landfill is a key target in the Ashdown Agreement, the groundbreaking, industry-wide agreement that British Gypsum helped to broker this year through the Gypsum Products Development Association (GPDA).
The agreement sets landfill limits and seeks to increase take back and recycling of plasterboard waste to 50% of new construction waste by 2010.
British Gypsum has also pioneered waste recycling in the UK, launching its award-winning Plasterboard Recycling Service in 2001.
It now collects and recycles plasterboard waste from new housing and commercial sites across the UK, which it reprocesses at its own purpose-designed recycling plants.
The gypsum reclaimed through this service currently accounts for up to18% of the total raw material feed for the company's plasterboard manufacturing lines.
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