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Our Green
Credentials
As a successful business within British Sugar plc, LimeX shares the same values as its parent with respect to sustainability and protecting the environment.
Carbon Footprint
The LimeX business has a carbon footprint of 2 kgCO2 per tonne of product. This is an apportioned estimate based on British Sugar's total UK factory emissions. The company's stategy is to continually evaluate technological and process development in order to reduce its overall emissions.
Click here for more info on British Sugar's approach
Sustainability
The fundamental core of LimeX's business is one of sustainability both in its manufacture and its usage. By recycling the limestone used in the processing of the sugar beet at British Sugar's factories it ensures a valuable resource is used in a sustainable way.
British Sugar & the Environment
The British beet sugar industry aims to transform all of its inputs into sustainable products:
- The sugar beet fibre, after the sugar is extracted, is marketed for high-energy animal feed
- The final syrups from which no more sugar may be extracted, are used as feedstock for our resin separation and bioethanol plant at Wissington, or is supplied as molasses to the fermentation industry
- The soil recovered from that adhering to the sugar beet is recycled and sold under the TOPSOIL brand
- Heat, water and CO2 from the Wissington factory is used to grow tomatoes at British Sugar's horticultural facility
The following illustration shows a schematic overview of British Sugar's sustainable operations - click on the image to enlarge it.
More information on British Sugar's environmental policies can be found at www.britishsugar.co.uk
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One of LimeX’s unique sustainability benefits is the recycling of valuable plant nutrients which are an integral part of its composition
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