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Do you know where your natural stone comes from?
Natural stone. A wonderful product. A product with many uses.
Some examples? Floors, kitchen surfaces, memorial stones,
paving and exterior cladding. The market for natural stone
continues to grow, both in the Netherlands and internationally.
Buyers value the quality of the material and the large variety
of colours that are available. But do you also know where your
natural stone comes from? Or under what circumstances the
natural stone is produced and processed in its country of origin?
More and more often natural stone is originating from countries
such as India and China. When it comes to these countries
people are regularly exposed to stories of child labour,
environmental damage and low wages. Do these injustices
also play a role in natural stone production and processing?
The natural stone sector in the Netherlands has gone in search
of the answer. On the basis of this quest a fitting answer to this
question has been found. In this brochure the Working Group on
Sustainable Natural Stone takes you on its journey. Read how
you can contribute to a solution.
What are the problems?
In recent years there has been increasingly more attention for
sustainability during extraction and processing of natural stone. Why?
Because the sector is being confronted with the injustices that occur in
the product chain such as child labour and environmental damage. Of
course, European quarries do not always necessarily function according to
international criteria either, but the attention in this area goes especially
to production in Asia, Africa and Latin America as the problems there are
much more pressing. Some examples of issues that catch the eye? Illegal
natural stone extraction in protected nature areas, dangerous working
conditions, child labour, pollution of the environment, low worker wages
and enforced labour debt burdens. The problems do not occur always
and everywhere, and where they do, not necessarily to the same extent.
However, for a number of Dutch companies and trade organisations they
carry considerable weight, enough so that they have decided to take part
in the Working Group on Sustainable Natural Stone
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