Aim
Ballance Agri-Nutrients manufactures and supplies fertiliser products to farmers and growers across Aotearoa. We are part of the communities we live and work in across the country, and we want to help protect the environment for our families and communities now and into the future. Our company values are: honesty, bravery, connections, and imagination. By basing our decision-making and actions on our values we aim to continually improve our operations and systems to reduce negative environmental impacts.
Objectives
Over the next two years we aim to:
- Continue to implement programs to reduce our environmental footprint targeting emissions, waste and water use
- Develop and implement plans to further improve our discharges to air and water
- Strengthen our performance against our compliance obligations
Performance
We will achieve our objectives by:
- Holding ourselves to account for our environmental performance and challenging ourselves to do better
- Building and further developing relationships with our neighbours, regulatory bodies and other parties, to understand issues and develop plans to achieve better environmental outcomes
- Identifying our critical risks and providing support to our people to help them understand their role in our environmental performance
- Finalise long-term improvement plans for our manufacturing sites to go beyond compliance where necessary
- Focusing resources and prioritising projects and initiatives to support our objectives
As a minimum we will comply with applicable laws, regulations, resource consents and voluntary agreements.
Ballance acknowledges that while senior management are accountable for environmental outcomes at our sites, we believe that the full Ballance workforce are responsible for driving our environmental performance.
Monitoring
Environmental performance will be tracked via monthly updates to the Executive Leadership Team.