CSR's impact on the environment

CSR impacts on the environment mainly through the production of clay, concrete and gypsum based and other building materials and sugar as well as constructing infrastructure as part of developing land for sale.

The main environmental management issues facing us are the control of process water and stormwater, solid wastes, boiler stack emissions, dust, odour, noise and spills of petroleum products.

Each CSR business strives to improve their environmental performance. We have established key performance measures for water and energy use, waste production and greenhouse gas emissions, with each business concentrating on those issues most important to them.

We are upgrading our data monitoring and collection systems as part of the SHE accreditation scheme to improve our ability to report progress against indicators. However, we currently comply with reporting requirements for the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI).

Full details are available on the NPI internet site, www.npi.gov.au. Expansion of the Greenhouse Challenge Plus initiative to all CSR's operations will enable us to report emissions yearly from next year.

Each CSR operational site regularly reports environmental performance to senior managers and the board's SHE Committee.