This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at Tetra Pak incrementó el reciclado de envases Tetra Brik un 20 por ciento en 2003
Tetra Pak increased recycling of packaging Tetra Brik by 20% in 2003
25/06/2004
on June 25, 2004
Tetra Pak recycled in 2003 a total of 35.514 tons of Tetra Brik packaging in 2003, an increase of 20 percent on 2002 levels. According to its 2004 sustainability report, this recycling rate corresponds to 26.5% of all packaging placed on the market, and has been increasing steadily over the past few years, from the nearly 13,000 tonnes recycled in 2000the more than 22,000 in 2001, and the nearly 30,000 in 2002.
Also in the field of recycling, the company said that in 2003 the residue of production increased by 4.6 percent, although it managed to recycle a 95 per cent of the same. The report also incorporates a new indicator on the generation of hazardous waste, 324 tonnes in 2003, a 26% lower than in 2002.
The report provides in addition specific data on the evolution during the past four years, of the consumption of paper and aluminum, which increased between 2002 and 2003, and the polyethylene and inks, which were reduced. The same happened with the consumption of energy and water (47.963 cubic metres) (0.53 TPE per million of packaging) and with greenhouse gas emissions greenhouse (2.026 tons).
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