In past 20 years air quality over all of the world became more polluted. Global warming impact all countries now, without any borders and each year brining new temperature records and natural disasters. Biggest enemies of air quality and global warming is industrial emissions, construction, deforestation, wood burning and oil/gas/coal-based energy production as well as old generation of building materials., especially based on bitumen products.

According to the World Health Organization, air pollution caused an estimated more than 5 million premature deaths globally in each year, due to cardiovascular diseases, cancers and respiratory infections. Despite the borders, we all share the same planet, which means that we are all responsible for taking action for each industries., including reducing carbon footprint by using sustainable logistics., and construction methods.

If we take for example Canada - the second largest country in the world with forest or other wooded land making up 40% of its 979 million hectares. Canada's forest cover represents 30% of the world's forest and 9% of the world's overall forest cover. Most of the people think that Canada has one of the most leanest and green country on the Earth, with no pollution. Is it true in nowadays? In 2020 most of worldwide experts says that despite this country’s high scores, the air pollution will still cause health issues for 20% of population. In the summer of 2021, at Lytton, was captured new all-time Canadian heat Record!

In particular more than 50 % of solid worldwide waste came from construction materials., more than 35% of consumed worldwide energy and 40% of greenhouse gas emissions linked to the construction & operation of the buildings. Meanwhile 60 % of the all-raw materials extracted from lithosphere used for construction & civil engineering works.

It is very important for the all building materials producers besides marketing declaration and promises about their sustainable approach on their websites - take a real actions on recycling construction waste from the products which they are manufacturing. Meantime roofing contractors together with building owners in play one of the key role the highlighting those problems to their communities and authorities.