Environmental Data

Our drive to continuously improve our environmental performance includes a relentless focus on monitoring and reducing emissions to air, water and soil, optimising resource, energy and water usage, and improving waste disposal practices.

ENERGY

As an energy-intensive industrial company, energy-related emissions account for the majority of our operational GHG footprint and energy efficiency is critical to our competitiveness. Striving for continuous improvement of our site operations worldwide makes good business sense, not only to reduce costs but to increase INEOS' resource efficiency and drive our emission reduction strategy.

WATER

We closely monitor data from all INEOS manufacturing sites to manage our water balance and optimise our water strategy. The water consumption per site is calculated as the difference between withdrawal and discharge. The balance is shared with each INEOS business for appropriate water planning and actions.

WASTE

To be transparent and aligned with international reporting standards, we monitor various waste categories and aim to set targets for wider product groups. We strive to minimise the waste we produce, and where possible to reuse or recycle waste to the maximum extent possible. We only send waste for incineration (with or without energy recovery), landfilling or other disposal route as a last resort.

OTHER AIR EMISSIONS

Chemical processes release air emissions, other than greenhouse gasses, including mainly combustion gasses such as NO_x and SO_x. As part of our pollution management system, we monitor our air emissions at each site and globally report NO_x, SO_x, CO, NH₃, POP, VOC, HAP, PM and ODS emissions. This does not only enable us to make sure that we remain well below the limits determined by local authorities but also helps us identify measures to reduce our impact.