| ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS |
Organisation creates impacts - some positive others negative, on the environment. Many organisations have reduced the direct impacts - such as smoke going into the air. However, the impact is often indirect, meaning it is felt elsewhere: e.g. When you switch on a light it is the Power stations elsewhere that pollute the air.
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DIRECT IMPACTS |
INDIRECT IMPACTS - RAW MATERIALS Most raw materials end up as waste. 90% of all raw materials do not end up in the final product. Raw materials - wood and stone, used to be local. Increasingly raw materials are coming from further afield. The equivalent of 40 million cubic metres of timber are imported into the UK each year, about 10% of which are from illegal sources. Minerals such as lead, tin, tungsten and zinc will soon be in short supply. Mining minerals impacts on the environment, destroying ecosystems, and causing subsidence and erosion of the land, the creation of waste and spoil heaps. These can contaminate land, causing poisons to enter water-courses, and causing serious health problems. Just about everything we purchase started life as raw materials. By consuming goods and creating waste we deplete these raw materials, and indirectly, through demand contribute to the impacts caused by their extraction. Globally, a total of 98% of new products end up as waste in the air, ground and water. *If required we will add here relevant statistics / information relating to your organisation and its environmental aspects / impacts and performance. INDIRECT IMPACTS
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