Green Award for Ford UK

Ford UK has been named the ‘Best Performing Corporate Organisation’ in the Mayor of London’s Green Procurement Code awards, in recognition of Ford’s outstanding contribution to materials recycling.

During 2005 the company has purchased sufficient recycled-content products to stop 21,000 tonnes of materials – the equivalent of nearly 3,000 Double Decker buses – being disposed of in landfill

One of the Ford initiatives was the section of the Dagenham estate roadway which had rubber crumbs or granules from shredded tyres added to the bitumen and aggregate. As a consequence around 300 tyres were not sent for landfill disposal and roadway improvements are expected to include a marked reduction in road surface noise generated by traffic.

Ford is also recycling 1,700 tonnes, annually, of a metal and oil sludge which is turned into briquettes for road surfacing, or refuelling cement kilns. The reclaimed oil from the process is used again in the Dagenham engine manufacturing plant.