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Waste and
wastewater
treatment
Environmental expenditure break up 2011
86.20%
13.80%
Other expenses
Environmental fines and sanctions
We are committed to complying with all applicable environmental
laws and regulations wherever we operate.
In 2011, there were no identified incidents of significant environmental
fines or non-monetary sanctions. There was however one unfortunate
incident of a third-party truck accident in Brazil that resulted in chemical
products spilling onto the road. The truck was carrying chemical products
from at least two other companies in addition to the products from
DyStar.
Pursuant to a standard procedure, the local authorities have asked DyStar
to pay 24,000 Euros in fine. However, DyStar has appealed against
the fine and is still awaiting a final decision from the authorities at the time
of writing this report. DyStar’s position is that the company’s products
classified as hazardous met the legal packaging requirements and did
not spill during the accident. Some of the DyStar products that leaked
in the accident were not classified products.
“Our technological innovations have helped us
reduce our emission intensity in 2011. Our
environmental integrity is integrated through
the whole of our supply chain and our production
colleagues are also increasing their environmental
consciousness. As a result of these efforts our
production costs are reducing and we are able to
manage our production more effectively.”
Mr. Chen KeKe
Deputy Manager, Process Technology Development - Wuxi China
Environmental Initiatives in 2011
Our facilities worldwide launched a number of initiatives in 2011
aimed at improving environmental performance by reducing energy
consumption, water use, waste and other resource.
Key initiatives included:
• Implement a direct heating process for the spray driers at our
Gabus plant, Indonesia, to reduce heat losses and to save energy.
• Build a new waste water treatment plant at our Reidsville plant,
USA, to reduce waste water pollutants.
• Continuously improve cleaning procedures for product changes
at all production sites to reduce the amount of waste water and
pollutants generated.
• Continuously work on yield improvement with regard to physical
and chemical production processes to reduce waste, waste water
and energy consumption per unit of product.
• Apply a wastewater recycling process wherever possible to
increase the rate of water reuse at all production sites.
• Increase employee awareness and change employee behaviour
at all manufacturing sites to save energy and water and to reduce
waste water generation.
• Re-use waste material whenever possible inside the plants and to
identify other industries which can safely re-use DyStar’s waste
material rather than disposing it through land fill or incineration.
Develop systems for ensuring controlled, safe and sustainable
re-use of waste material.
• Work on low energy waste gas treatment processing instead of
thermal oxidization to reduce the consumption of natural gas and
thus, the emission of carbon dioxide.
• Review the car policy at major production sites to reduce the
consumption of fuel and the emission of carbon dioxide.
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