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AW Group – World Environment Day 2024

“A little effort towards saving the environment is better than no effort”

This year, 2024, the World Environment Day theme is “land restoration, desertification and drought resilience” under the slogan “Our Land. Our Future. We are #GenerationRestoration”. This theme focuses on land restoration, desertification, and drought resilience for a nation grappling with degradation, desertification, and drought.

Land restoration is a crucial element of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), a global call to protect and rejuvenate ecosystems worldwide, essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Across our activities within the rail and construction sector we are always looking at ways in which we can play a part in protecting the future of the environment and managing the waste encountered from our projects in a more environmental way.

Over the past 2 years we have forged some fantastic partnerships with many commercial and community organisations to reuse, recycle, upcycle, and collaborate on ideas for other areas of waste that we see returned to our yard to enter the circular economy.

We continue to engage with many local organisations supplying them with timber, bricks, plastic drainage ducting, paint and more. The conversations that we have with people from different sectors of the community allows us to identify different waste streams as having a value to these organisations, allowing us to reduce our impact on the environment even further.

However, it is not just about providing materials to these organisations, empowering the people that make use of these facilities, seeing the wide range of end products that are produced to further enhance other communities within the local area all going to making a more sustainable future for all.

As we mark World Environment Day, we are celebrating how far we’ve come in diverting waste from landfill and pushing valuable materials into recycling, upcycling, reuse across a diverse range of local communities and organisations.  The support of our clients from the construction and rail industry and beyond has been a key part of this journey. It’s inspiring for all those involved to see how resource efficiency and environmental best practice is now fundamental in the activities and  projects we are engaged in.

Why we need to protect our environment?

Environmental protection is the cornerstone for maintaining our planet, communities, and economy. If it is not protected, the following can be serious effects but not limited to:

• Unavailability of a place for shelter
• Deforestation
• Increase in global temperature
• Poor quality of air
• Extinction of species
• Natural disasters

We cannot turn back time, but we can grow forests, revive water sources, and bring back and revive soils. We are and can inform the next generation that we can make peace with land, today and for future generations to celebrate World Environment Day!

There are some fantastic resources available for this year’s #GenerationRestoration  which can be found here on the World Environment Day website – do take a look and celebrate future World Environment Days.

They’ve even knocked up a sort of world themed play list for you to listen too and inspire your activities to protect “Our Land, Our Future”  (let us know what you think!)

AW Group is a multi-disciplined construction company providing a broad range of support and manpower across building and rail projects.

Our Fields are:

AW Construction – We offer an outstanding UK-wide fit out service, taking care of everything from scheduling rollouts & ordering materials to assistance with design and onsite delivery

AW Rail – We use the very best labour force and a proactive approach to deliver first-class construction and maintenance projects across the rail industry

AW Labour – We provide a high-calibre blue collar and white-collar workforce with a diverse range of skills, to support the construction and rail industries