Sustainable Waste Management
We aim to avoid hazardous as well as non-hazardous waste as far as possible and to break the link between our business growth and waste production. Rigorous materialflow management from use of raw materials to product finishing is aimed at ensuring that we use resources as efficiently as possible and minimize our waste volumes.
Our business units and sites strive to increase efficiency and are working constantly on various research projects for the prevention, reduction and recycling of waste. In turn, our networked sites enable us to re-use many waste and secondary flows as a raw material directly in neighboring plants – both our own as well as those of other chemicals companies – to create closed loops and thus avoid the generation of waste.
We group waste into five categories, each divided into hazardous and non-hazardous waste. The chart shows each category’s share (in %) of total waste.
