Circularity is an opportunity to deliver growth by using materials more efficiently.
Circularity is an opportunity to deliver growth by using materials more efficiently.
CRH is creating business and customer value through our positive contribution to a circular economy. By introducing greater circularity across our business and supply chain, we can help solve our customers material resource challenges and create value for all. It also enables us to improve sustainability and reduce CO2 emissions. We are focused on delivering circular solutions that are longer lasting, have higher recycled content and can be reused, repaired, and recycled.
We are the largest recycler in North America and across our business we use 98 times more wastes and by-products, sourced internally and from other industries, than we send for disposal from our own processes. Through our $250 million Venturing and Innovation Fund, our Innovation Center for Sustainable Construction (iCSC), and CRH Ventures, we are building a pipeline of new business models and circular solutions.
million tonnes of wastes and by-products recycled in 2024
$ billion revenues from products with enhanced sustainability attributes in 2024
CRH’s Sustainability Framework is focused on how our products, services, and solutions can help to solve water challenges, enable a circular economy, and support progress towards a resilient, net-zero built environment. This includes building on our strong position in using wastes and by-products, sourced internally and from other industries to support the transition to a more circular economy. We take a collaborative, whole life approach to the design of products, buildings and infrastructure to eliminate waste, maximize resource efficiency and prolong the life-cycle of structures.
To embed circularity within our business, we set a target for 95% of our operating companies to have waste management plans in place by 2030, which we have already achieved. We will continue to drive forward on waste reduction and recycling and ensure newly acquired businesses are fully integrated into our target processes.
Our 2024 Performance:
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2024 Sustainability Performance Report
1: Revenues derived from products that incorporate any, or a combination of; recycled materials; are produced using alternative energy and fuel sources; have a lower carbon footprint as compared to those produced using traditional manufacturing processes; and/or are designed to specifically benefit the environment (i.e. water treatment and management systems, products with strong thermal mass/U-values).