| Cleaner neighborhoods |
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- We help provide a better environment for local communities to live in.
- We minimise plastic pollution particularly in slum areas where we collect most of our material and where formal waste collection services are minimal or non-existent.
- Help minimise clogging of sewers due to polythene bags which have been linked to flooding in urban areas.
- Material are supplied already coloured so there’s no need for use of potentially toxic paints.
- Better than treated timber, there is no leaching of chemicals into underground water.
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| Waste management solution to plastics |
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- We withdraw an otherwise waste product and make high quality, useful, valuable items.
- We promote the reclamation of plastic waste that would otherwise be discarded in a landfill.
- We provide a viable and socially acceptable alternative to disposal of plastics.
- Over 3 million kgs of plastics recycled, 20.9 million kgs to be recycled over next 10 yrs.
- The plastic materials are obtained from post-industrial or post-consumer recycling sources, further reducing the need for virgin plastic derived directly from petroleum.
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| Socioeconomic impact |
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- We help create and expand markets for waste materials that would have otherwise been discarded. We are committed to environmental excellence that is integrated with a business‐wide approach to sustainability.
- We create and safeguard new jobs.
- 40+ direct jobs and 5,000+ indirect jobs.
- Over the next 5 years we hope to create at least 150 direct jobs and 20,000 indirect jobs.
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| Minimise cutting of trees / reduction in use of natural resources |
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- As fencing material we directly help minimise the cutting down of trees.
- 850+ acres of forect saved, 5,750+ acres to be saved over the next 10 yrs.
- 2,400+ tonnes of timber saved, 8,000+ tonnes to be saved over the next 5 yrs.
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| Climate change mitigation |
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- Over 160 million kgs of CO2 emissions mitigated, 1.14 billion kgs to be mitigated over the next 10 yrs.
- This is calculated separately from the quantities of plastic recycled and the acreage of forest saved.
- This is equivalent to 1,320 cars off the road or 46 million polythene bags recycled.
- Over the next 5 years we estimate we will mitigate approx 381 million kgs of CO2.
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