Sustainability

Environmental

Environmental Policy

PPC is committed to understanding and managing any potential environmental impacts of our activities relating to the sustainable manufacture of cement and lime, as well as the mining of aggregates and other minerals.

We do this by ensuring that environmental management is an integral part of our operations. We continue to strive to meet the expectations and requirements of all our stakeholders through monitoring and managing environmental performance using an integrated and effective environmental management system.

PPC believes that all its employees and everyone associated with the company have an important role to play in achieving its environmental objectives and targets.

PPC is committed to:

• Establish clear accountability for environmental performance;
• Continual environmental improvement by providing a customised framework for setting and reviewing environmental objectives and targets based on stakeholder engagement and the identification of significant environmental impacts;
• Comply with environmental legislation and other requirements to which PPC subscribes that enables the company to identify and implement resource optimisation strategies and technology improvements to achieve a level of environmental performance that meets or surpasses the requirements for regulatory compliance;
• Implement effective waste and energy management principles and cleaner technology alternatives throughout the company;
• Facilitate effective and transparent communication to stakeholders by establishing environmental-management stakeholder forums and internal communiqués; and
• Build capacity among its stakeholders to identify, report and act proactively on opportunities to minimise environmental impacts.

This policy will be reviewed annually to demonstrate PPC's commitment to continuous environmental management and will be communicated to all stakeholders throughout its value chain.