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The Ministry of environment and ASPAPEL sign agreement on discharges of waste water in the paper industry

17/01/2006

The term of the agreement is four years and is binding on all the companies in the sector.

Last November the Minister of environment, Cristina Narbona and Juan Vila, ASPAPEL representative, signed an agreement to control discharges of waste water from the manufacture of pulp, paper and cardboard industry. The sectoral Plan aims to promote the efficient use of water using the latest technologies in the field.

The agreement will result in the reduction of discharges of the paper sector and promotes the rationality in the consumption of water in the framework of the new water policy. Also expected to implement the application of law 16/2002 of prevention and integrated pollution Control (IPPC). The term is four years and is binding on the companies in the sector, which undertake to adapt their discharges to the demanding values emission limit is set and not to use molecular chlorine (Cl2) in the money laundering kraft.

The evolution of the Spanish paper industry waste

Spanish paper industry has a long tradition in the implementation of efficiency measures on the use of water. Total water usage has been reduced by 40% since 1990 and the unit discharge has decreased by 40% for cellulose and 70% for the role. Solids in suspension per tonne fell by 58% for cellulose and 89% for the role. Also halogenated compounds (AOX), present in the effluents produced by the production of bleached pulp, have been reduced by 62%.

Thus, this agreement is to continue with the commitment made in the gradual reduction of waste generated by the paper industry. In March of this year ASPAPEL presented the first sectoral report of sustainability that was published in Spain, as an example of responsibility towards the environment.

Presentation of the programme PREVENPAPEL

It's a program promoted by ASPAPEL, FCT-CCOO and FIA-UGT, developed by the Spanish paper Institute and funded by the Foundation for the prevention of occupational risks. The dissemination of the project has been in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao.

In these days of dissemination of the project PREVENPAPEL is an x-ray of the sector in prevention of occupational risks, through the diagnosis of the situation. This report collects and analyzes the evolution of the accident rate in the sector over the past five years, analyses the systematic management of prevention applied and sets out measures for the future.

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