We are very conscious of our responsibilities towards our neighbours and work hard to prevent any nuisance or offence, as stated in our Environment Policy.
Most of our manufacturing sites only have small steam boilers and few process emissions. As such the emissions to air from most of our sites are not significant. Our sugar operations however are much larger but are subject to more stringent controls. Our non-carbon atmospheric emissions are dust particles, acid gases (oxides of sulphur and nitrogen) and odours, all of which have to comply with local environmental standards.
Recently we started to collect data on our emissions of sulphur dioxide and can now report that across our global operations we emitted 4,900 tonnes in 2011. Having established a benchmark we will now be able to report our progress in managing these emissions.