Aggregates Carbon Reduction Portal
The resources on the Aggregates Carbon Reduction Portal explain how aggregates businesses can maximize their carbon reduction and save money in a highly competitive environment. The information on the website can be used by anyone in the industry seeking to reduce carbon and energy consumption at their site/plant. Carbon reduction is at its most successful when all members of staff are involved, increasing the likelihood of long-term financial and environmental gains.
Achieving carbon and energy reduction is a journey, rather than a single step. The Aggregates Carbon Reduction Portal uses an innovative ‘journey navigator’ to replicate the passage towards carbon and energy reduction for a crushed rock quarry, sand and gravel quarry or asphalt plant. The website is user-friendly and a video on the homepage clearly explains how it works.
The journey navigator takes users through the five steps of Energy Awareness, Find and Evaluate Opportunities, Implement Opportunities, Track and Measure, and Energy Management. Users can choose whether to complete the whole journey or just dip into individual stages, depending on the point their business has reached.
At each stage of the journey valuable tools and resources can be found. These include toolbox talks, how-to guides, posters, case studies, and videos. In addition, users have access to two special tools: the energy-saving assessment tool, designed to provide a quick assessment of the potential for energy saving, based on the information provided by the user; and the opportunities database, a spreadsheet tool where users can log and track carbon/energy-cutting opportunities from identification through to implementation.
The carbon-reduction content was created by The Carbon Trust in collaboration with the Mineral Products Association (MPA). The Carbon Trust specializes in helping businesses and the public sector to boost business returns by cutting carbon emissions, saving energy and commercializing low-carbon technologies. Development of the portal was funded via the former Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF), which has now been scrapped by government.
For further information visit: www.aggregatescarbonreduction.com
