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Our sustainability policy

Our approach to sustainability

Implats is the second-largest producer of platinum in the world with the potential to impact the global PGM market.  In the past two years, and amid a changing legislative and global operating environment, Implats has concentrated on deepening its understanding of the group’s sustainability footprint. 

There is now heightened awareness that all aspects of sustainability – financial and non-financial – impact on our stakeholders and, therefore, on our business.

We understand that our view of our business process must be integrated across the life cycle of operations, from exploration, mining and mineral processing to refining, marketing and recycling. 

 
 

We also understand that while we do not control our products through their full life cycles, we are responsible for ensuring safe delivery and recycling as much as possible.  We acknowledge that our business has a direct impact:

  • Environmentally – pollution of water, air, land and noise as well as impact on availability of resources
  • Socially – the social impact and consequences of the migrant labour systems; inherent dangers of mining that have a direct impact on the safety of employees  and the community
  • Economically – loss of land for community framing, animal grazing and generation of income


Despite these impacts, through mining we contribute positively to society by:

  • Providing employment and drawing human resources from surrounding communities
  • Creating sustainably communities through our upliftment programmes such as enterprise and skills development, and implementing community projects
  • Developing infrastructure in our communities such as roads and electrification
  • Working jointly with stakeholders to provide required government capacity to deliver on its mandate


For full detail please see Implats’ Integrated Annual Report 2011.
 
 
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