We are committed to identifying and complying with all relevant environmental legislation and aim to manage environmental responsibilities in a manner that minimises the effects of our operations on the quality of life in each of the communities where we operate.

Through our manufacturing excellence programmes we continuously focus on promoting good practice throughout our operations. Good practice encourages, among other things, efficient waste management and effective use of scarce and expensive resources such as energy and water.

We recycle water, where appropriate and safe, at high water-use sites and are proactively investigating alternative 'green' sources of energy to power our businesses. The Group is also working with the Carbon Trust on a number of initiatives to reduce our carbon emissions and to develop low carbon technologies which we can implement across our businesses.