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2.2 Production – Focus on Environmental Awareness Contents
Breakdown of waste for 2009
We recycle all usual
materials such as
processes. Only 2 per cent actually requires
disposal. That amounts to a resource
special cleaning solvents. As always, we
avoid simple disposal in favour of the latest
scrap iron, paper,
efficiency of 99.7 per cent, based on the
recycling solutions – which not only benefits
cardboard, and
amount of non-recyclable materials we
the environment, but also our bottom line.
Mixed plastic waste
14,1%
Paper and cardboard
16,4%
Total hazardous
waste 44,5%
Scrap metal 16,3%
Wood and pallets
8,3%
Total other waste
0,5%
plastic film. In
addition, we have
teamed up with a
specialist waste
disposal company
to find a use for ink
and other sludges
and the residual
solvents contained
in them. The
patented Isodry ®
generate compared to the quantity of
finished products. In other words, for every
tonne of ink we produce, there are only 2.4
kilograms of waste requiring disposal.
Waste Water
In terms of its contents, the waste water
from our Tamm site is much the same as
that from private households. It does not
need to be monitored and can be drained
The cleaning solvents we use are distilled,
which removes any dirt. 95 per cent of our
cleaning agents can be re-used.
We have also changed the composition of
the cleaning agents that we deploy. The
mixture of butyl acetate and Pyranton A
is now largely comprised of dibasic ester
(DBE). This move was motivated primarily
by health and safety considerations, as
it minimises our employees’ exposure to
process recovers
into the public sewer system without prior
hazardous chemicals (DBE is not subject to
Breakdown of hazardous waste in 2009
the solvents, which
can be recycled.
treatment.
regulatory limits for dangerous substances).
Waste ink / varnish
8,5 t
Pigments and other
waste materials
Cleaning
Water-based ink
0,1 t
Waste from ink and
varnish removal 2,2 t
Pigment dust 1,2 t
Ink and other sludges
23,8 t
Distillation sludge
63,3 t
such as binding
agents can be
used as feedstock
for methanol
production. As
a result, around
98 per cent of
our waste can be
re-used in other
With an annual output of 2,000 tonnes, we
need large amounts of mixing containers
– and it takes an ingenious system to
make cleaning all
the containers as
eco-friendly as
possible. Containers
needing cleaning
are treated with
Quantity of hazardous waste per year since 2005 in [t]
150
100
50
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Marabu focuses
on recycling
rather than
disposal. That
means investing
wisely to improve resource efficiency: for example, 95 per cent of
our cleaning agents can be reused after distillation.
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