Our Green
Credentials

As a successful business within British Sugar plc, TOPSOIL shares the same values as its parent with respect to sustainability and protecting the environment.

Sustainability

The fundamental core of TOPSOIL's business is one sustainability.  By recycling the soil that adheres to the sugar beet delivered to British Sugar's factories it ensures a valuable non-renewable resource is used in a sustainable way, contributing to UK and EU soil protection strategies.

British Sugar & the Environment

The British beet sugar industry aims to transform all of its inputs into sustainable products:

• The sugar beet itself, after the sugar is extracted, is marketed for high-energy animal feed
• Molasses, the final syrup from which no more sugar may be extracted, is used as a feedstock by the fermentation industry
• The lime products produced as part of the purification process are sold under the LimeX brand for soil conditioning
• Heat, water and CO₂ from the Wissington factory is used to grow tomatoes at British Sugar's horticultural facility

The following illustration shows a schematic overview of British Sugar's sustainable operations  -  click on the image to enlarge it.

More information on British Sugar's environmental policies can be found at britishsugar.co.uk