Monday 9 November 2020

Polluter’s greenwash “backfires spectacularly”

Climate change became news 30 years ago

 At Aggregate Industries, CO2 emissions were – at the last count – still rising.

Clearly, as demonstrated by its bonkers multi-million mile haulage plan for Straitgate Farm, Aggregate Industries expects others to do the heavy lifting of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 

Claims that "#sustainability is at the heart of our business, and is incorporated in all of our operations... 🌍" seemingly don’t apply in the county of Devon, or to the company's CO2 emissions.  

Shell – another company responsible for our climate crisis – seems to suffer similar delusions. Many companies – cement giant, major CO2 emitter and Aggregate Industries' parent LafargeHolcim included – are now trying desperately to greenwash their operations. This story shows there’s only so much greenwash that polluters can pump out before it can all backfire spectacularly: