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Chemical
Industry:
Turning hazardous waste into a raw material
Oy Ekokem Ab, which was established in 1979, reclaims, renders
harmless and disposes of hazardous and industrial waste. Ekokem
has responded with experience to the European Union’s
WEEE Directive, which became effective in 2005 and transfers
the responsibility for arranging the waste management of electrical
and electronic equipment withdrawn from circulation to the
producers i.e. manufacturers and importers.
Since 2002 the company’s recovery plant for refrigeration
equipment, the only one of its kind in the world, has handled
well over 300,000 parts. More than 90 per cent of the materials
used in their production will be processed for reclamation
in the form of a new raw material or energy.
Components that are unsuitable for reclamation and harmful
or hazardous to health or the environment are processed safely.
Ekokem’s high temperature incineration technique is
also suitable for treating safely the Freon gases that weaken
the ozone layer in the atmosphere when released from refrigeration
equipment.
Photo: Ekokem has exported hazardous-waste treatment
services to more than 30 countries.
Published 2006
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