During 2009, we launched the Anglo American Environment Way, a Group-wide standard that sets out a consistent approach to responsible environmental management. It supports our vision for minimising harm through the design, operation and eventual closing of operations in an environmentally responsible manner.
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Climate change is a key challenge of our era. We recognise the need to take meaningful action towards addressing its causes, and to help protect our employees, assets, as well as the communities and environments linked to our operations, against its potential impacts.
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We aim to use water sparingly and efficiently, re-use what we can and release only water of an acceptable quality back into the environment.
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There are inevitable disturbances to land during mining. By implementing the Anglo Environment Way, we endeavour to minimise the negative impacts of our activities and ultimately restore disturbed land to an agreed land capability and land use at mine closure.
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Our various waste streams are handled responsibly and the ‘reduce, re-use and recycle’ principle is applied wherever possible.