and Silicates
A next generation global platform bringing us together to build a future where sand and silicates are sourced, used and managed responsibly.
Why a Coalition for Responsible Sand and Silicates?
The Coalition is the only organisation dedicated to responsible sourcing and production practices for sand and silicate materials. No other body holds this ground.
We work across three roles. We offer a credible commitment signal for companies acting on these materials. We build the shared knowledge base that makes responsible practice easier and less costly to adopt. And we provide a common foundation that standards bodies can use to anchor their standards and certification schemes, helping ensure responsible sourcing of sand and silicates across the entire value chain.
We are not a standards body. We are the dedicated knowledge and practice platform for this material family, built to last and designed to work with the people who source, produce, regulate and depend on these materials every day.
We need to restore regard for these materials.
That begins by addressing their invisibility.
Our founder members
Our founder members built this platform. They brought operational knowledge, research, funding and hard questions, and co-designed the Coalition's purpose, governance and programme of work.
We are grateful to each of them and to the dozens of organisations who contributed insight along the way.
Join us
If you source, produce or govern sand and silicate materials, we'd like to work with you.
Any organisation that joins in 2026, our founding year, is recognised as a Founder Member, with a direct hand in shaping what responsible practice looks like for these materials.
The organisations that engage now will shape what responsibility looks like for these materials. Those that wait will respond to definitions written by others.
