Ecological policy

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EuroChem works in an industry with high ecological safety risks. The design and implementation of the company's ecological policy is a most important part of corporate social responsibility.
The company's ecological policy is declared in the document "Policy in the Area of Industrial Safety, Occupational Safety, and the Environment."


The following ecological goals have been adopted as part of this current policy:
- improvement of environmental protection activity;
- providing industrial safety for production facilities and occupational safety for personnel;
- bringing the main environmental protection indicators for the enterprises' activity up to international levels.


EuroChem takes a series of obligations upon itself in the area of managing ecological risks; among these the main ones are:
- not to harm workers and the public; compliance with environmental protection legislation;
- environmental protection as a principle in building the technological cycle;
- effective use of raw materials and energy;
- recognition of safety and environmental protection to be among the most important production indicators;


EuroChem makes targeted investments in the development and implementation of new technologies at its enterprises, which make it possible to use natural resources economically, including water, and to decrease the amount of energy consumed. Technologies using the heat output during the production process (in particular, of sulfuric acid) for heating premises, water and other enterprise and city facility needs are being expanded and modernized.


Technologies are being implemented for water recirculation during production.
EuroChem develops and carries out environmental protection measures. The costs for performing such measures came to RUR  607,41 million in 2007.


Illustration on ensuring of ecological safety of EuroChem enterprises in 2007 are the following:
- Reducing of processing facilities pollutant emissions into atmosphere by upgrading efficiency of dust-gas-cleaning units or installation of new dust-gas-cleaning units on 2 150 tones;
- Reducing of water consumption and water removal by repair and modernization of water circulation cycles and water lines – 18 million cubic meters;
- Reducing of pollutants discharge in water bodies by modernization of local treatment facilities, repair and renewal of sewerage systems, cleaning of sediment ponds – 25 million cubic meters.


Notwithstanding the development of production facilities and the substantial scope of repair work, positive tendencies prevailed in the waste treatment area in 2007. The mass of the processing industry waste sent for use and detoxification exceeded the waste which was produced during the year. The volume of hazard category 5 mining industry waste in the overall volume of waste was 98%.


The increase in the use of processing industry waste is explained by the use of EuroChem-BMU phosphogypsum in the construction of dams for sludge collectors.
In 2007, 957,435 tons of phosphogypsum was used in the construction of dams for sludge collectors, land reclamation and in agriculture.