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Spanish chemical industry reduced 84% their discharges and 56% emissions

05/01/2007

January 5, 2007

The International Conference "Chemistry and sustainable development", which was held last days 5 to 7 December in the Puerto de la Cruz, was the chosen scene so that the Vice President and Director General of FEIQUE, Juan José Nava, submit the results of the program commitment of progressan initiative developed by the Spanish chemical industry to continuously improve the protection of the environment and security. This programme is implemented and developed in Spain by the Business Federation of the Spanish chemical industry (FEIQUE) since 1993, which aims to improve the security and protection of the environment in the chemical companies.

As recorded in this program, the set of emission gas, inherent to the processes of manufacturing and combustion, has experienced a continuous decline since the beginning of the program. The main cause of this improvement is the use of increasingly cleaner technologies, and methods of recovery and treatment of pollutants. If we consider the set of the type of measures emissions (sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and particles ólidas), the reduction in average emissions for each tonne produced is 56%. This is summarized in a company's commitment to progress issues today less than half of pollutants that aired in 1993, for each tonne produced.

The reduction of pollutants in discharges is also one of the aspects in which the efforts made by the companies adhering to commitment to progress achieved a larger fruit. In that regard and accounting for all types of landfill (COD, phosphorus, nitrogen and heavy metals) the average reduction achieved by each tonne produced has been 84 per cent between 1993 and 2005.