ASP Access Floors’ environmental commitment
As a member of the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) and the US Green Building Council (USGBC), ASP Access Floors’ Environmental Policy outlines how the company endeavours to use recycled materials, reduce its carbon footprint and optimise its supply chain.
The implementation of the policy will ensure ASP considers sustainability in all relevant decision making; reduces their greenhouse gas emissions; and produces less waste and increases recycling.
The results from the LCA and the sensitivity analysis show potential improvements to reduce the overall environmental impacts of ASP’s access floor systems. Areas of focus include:
- The use of certified 100% hydroelectricity at the steel manufacturing plant
- Increasing the percentage of recycled cement in the cementitious core mix
- Finding more environmental alternatives to the panel core
- Reducing the weight of the whole system to minimise both production and distribution environmental impacts
- The monitoring of freight services to ensure shipping methods with the best available technology and least environmental impact are used
- Optimising distribution routes to eliminate unnecessary transport
- Substituting truck freight with rail freight where practical
Beyond the scope of the study, ASP Access Floors is looking to set up a product stewardship programme to recover and recycle access floor componentry at end of life.
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