Design Buy Build Issue 46 2020 | Page 8

EDITORS CHOICE NEOLITH ® ACHIEVES CARBON NEUTRAL STATUS Market-leading surfacing brand goes carbon neutral. The pioneers of Sintered Stone has announced it has achieved carbon neutral status. In 2019 the brand recorded no net release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from gate-to-gate emissions. It’s a significant milestone in the company’s objective to become an internationally recognised green manufacturer, producing one of the most sustainable and ecologicallyfriendly materials available to architects, specifiers and end users alike. WORKING OUT To attain the highly-prized carbon neutral status Neolith followed the internationally recognized Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) and implemented a dynamic, innovationled sustainability strategy coupled with tactical, high value carbon-offsetting. This has led to carbon neutrality across the entire business, significantly seeing the brand receiving 100% of its electricity in 2019 from renewable energy sources. This measure removed a massive 7,690 tonnes of CO2 emissions . 8