Creating a better environment
Operational efficiency
Our commitment
We are committed to minimising our impacts on the natural world. This includes prioritising operational efficiency and maximising resource efficiency across all our operations to reduce the environmental impact from our products along their life cycle.
Our goal
Our goal is to eliminate and minimise pollution, waste and use of resources in all our operations and to safeguard biodiversity in and around our manufacturing sites.
Read about how we are taking action to prioritise operational efficiency and maximise resource efficiency across our operations.
Environmental management
Our Environmental and Energy Policy Statement sets out our commitment to protecting the environment, and ensures we fulfil our environmental compliance obligations.
We have achieved ISO 14001:2015 environmental management system certification at our Gaydon and St Athan sites and certification of ISO 50001:2018 for energy management across engineering and manufacturing operations at Gaydon and St Athan.
Waste
As a core element of our sustainability strategy, we have a target to reduce the amount of waste per car built and continue with our long-standing target of zero waste to landfill.
At our Gaydon and St Athan sites we use a specialist contractor to manage our waste activities from on-site monitoring, segregation and management, through to waste disposal and delivering training.
Air quality
We operate several processes under permit to the relevant local authority, predominately linked to our paint operations, which set air quality requirements for particulate matter, Volatile Organic Compounds (‘VOCs’), Carbon Monoxide (‘CO’) and Nitrous Oxides (‘NOx’). We actively manage our operations to ensure compliance with permits and to minimise any pollutants. We engage an external third party to undertake monitoring on our behalf and in line with the Monitoring Certification Scheme for Equipment, a certification scheme for environmental monitoring personnel, organisations and equipment in the UK. All regulated Aston Martin sites operate within the parameters of their individual permits and this is verified by the local authorities each year.
Water
Almost all our main water demand is generated by our manufacturing processes at our St Athan and Gaydon sites, water consumption at our UK sites accounts for 95% of the Company’s total water consumption and is supplied by regional water companies; we do not self-abstract.
Although our operations are not regarded as water intensive due to our low production volumes we work with the relevant water companies for our sites to manage any local water resource management concerns that may occur.
According to the World Resource Institute Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, Gaydon is in an area of low to medium water stress and St Athan is in an area of low stress.
To ensure we continue to take ownership of our own water resource management, we have a target to reduce total water consumption at manufacturing sites by 30% per car by 2030 against a 2022 baseline.
Water consumption at our UK sites accounts for 95% of the Company’s total water consumption and is supplied by regional water companies; we do not self-abstract. Wastewater is returned to the foul sewers (based on the relevant consent) for treatment by the relevant regional water company. We continuously work to ensure that materials and chemicals remain separated, and that pollution of water resources does not occur. In line with our consent requirements, we undertake direct sampling with the relevant environmental protection authority at least annually.
Biodiversity
We are committed to enhancing biodiversity at our sites and minimising ecological impacts by conducting specialist risk assessments and monitoring prior to undertaking any activities that may affect it.
We monitor our biodiversity management plans at Gaydon and St Athan using the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (‘DEFRA’) Biodiversity Metric 1.03 Ecological Baseline Condition Assessment methodology. Our Racing. Green. target is to improve this Biodiversity Index Score year-on-year.
Our bees
Bees are a critical element of the natural ecosystem and have been under increasing stress. To support this vital natural resource we have 12 hives located on our Gaydon site which are managed and cared for by a specialist bee management company, ensuring our bee population remains healthy.
Beyond our operations
