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Our Green
Credentials
As a successful business within British Sugar plc, TOPSOIL shares the same values as its parent with respect to sustainability and protecting the environment.
Carbon Footprint
The TOPSOIL business has a carbon footprint of 9 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.
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Sustainability
The fundamental core of TOPSOIL's business is one sustainability. By recycling the soil that adheres to the sugar beet delivered to British Sugar's factories it ensures a valuable non-renewable resource is used in a sustainable way, contributing to UK and EU soil protection strategies.
British Sugar & the Environment
The British beet sugar industry aims to transform all of its inputs into sustainable products:
- The sugar beet fibre itself, 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 a feedstock for our resin separation and bio-ethanol plant at Wissington, or is supplied as Molasses to the fermentation industry
- The lime products produced as part of the purification process are sold under the LimeX brand for soil conditioning
- 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 britishsugar.co.uk |