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Businesses come together to discuss bioeconomy network

21 March, 2022

Over 35 local businesses came together at Anglo American’s office in Scarborough last week to discuss the creation of a bioeconomy network on the North Yorkshire coast.

The BioYorkshire programme, which is an innovative public-private partnership between the University of York, Fera Science Ltd and Askham Bryan College, aims to transform the region’s bioeconomy - the sustainable production of renewable resources from land and sea, and their conversion into food, feed, energy and other consumer products.

It aims to support North Yorkshire's ambitions to become one of the first areas in the UK to be carbon negative, whilst also creating 4,000 highly skilled jobs, reducing CO2 emissions by 2.8 million tonnes per year, reducing waste to landfill by 1.2 million tonnes per year and generating £1.4bn for the UK economy.

Professor Ian Graham of the University of York said: “This event was held to explore how BioYorkshire and Anglo American can work together to deliver a greener and more prosperous future for the area.

“It was great to see a good take-up from local businesses to come and hear about what is going on and to see what opportunities might arise.”

One of the many local businesses in attendance to hear more about how the initiative could benefit them was SeaGrown, who are developing an exciting seaweed farm off the Scarborough coastline.

“Creating a bioeconomy network on the Yorkshire coast is a fantastic idea which could have a big impact in the area and this event was a great way to start that process. It was also important to go away with some concrete actions to move things forward now too,” said their Operations Director Wave Crookes.

Anglo American has committed to supporting the creation of a bioeconomy network in the area and another meeting to explore opportunities for local businesses is set to be held in the near future.

Matt Parsons from Anglo American said: “The bioeconomy has been identified as a growth sector for the local economy, and we aim to play a role in supporting that growth and helping to create more jobs and opportunities in the region.”

Find out more about BioYorkshire here: https://www.bioyorkshire.co.uk/

For further information, please contact:

Daniel Gregory
[email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 7890 049400

Notes to editors:

Anglo American is a leading global mining company and our products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive operations, with a broad range of future development options, provides many of the future-enabling metals and minerals for a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast growing every day demands of billions of consumers.

With our people at the heart of our business, we use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and to mine, process, move and market our products to our customers – safely and sustainably.

As a responsible producer of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum group metals, premium quality iron ore and metallurgical coal for steelmaking, and nickel – with crop nutrients in development – we are committed to being carbon neutral across our operations by 2040.

More broadly, our Sustainable Mining Plan commits us to a series of stretching goals to ensure we work towards a healthy environment, creating thriving communities and building trust as a corporate leader. We work together with our business partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock enduring value from precious natural resources for the benefit of the communities and countries in which we operate, for society as a whole, and for our shareholders. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

The Woodsmith Project involves digging two 1 mile deep mine shafts at Woodsmith Mine near the village of Sneaton near Whitby, and a 23 mile transportation tunnel to a processing facility and port on Teesside.  In a world first, most of the surface infrastructure at Woodsmith Mine is being built underground and the site landscaped to minimise the visual impact on the surrounding countryside.  It will mine a giant deposit of the mineral polyhalite, which will be sold as a natural, low carbon environmentally friendly fertiliser.

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