Island Life Magazine Ltd February/March 2012 | Page 134

BUSINESS

Building a social conscience

The Island’s aggregate supplier, HJ
Bennett, is a family run business going
back several generations. They are as
inextricably linked to - and conscious
of lowering their impact on – the
beauty of the location in which they
operate.
But, being a supplier to the built
environment is sometimes at odds with
those ideals. Here’s how they make
what they do as green as it possibly can
be.
A small, family owned and run
business based in Bembridge, HJ

Bennett has been operating since 1948
and now manages the largest aggregate
recycling plant on the Island, discreetly
hidden away at St Georges Down,
Newport.
“As a local company we’ve been
supplying aggregate and road surfacing
materials for over 60 years,” says N