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Environmental Stewardship
In its Vision 2010, BASF has adopted Sustainable Development
as a motto and undertakes to be guided by the principles
of this concept with its strong orientation toward
the future. Knowledge derived from research and development
provides the basis for processes and products which
conserve resources and are environmentally compatible – and
also profitable. To this base BASF adds the Verbund
approach to the integration of ideas – between
plastics producers and society.
| Plastics: the best products for the environment and resource
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When it comes to conservation of resources and protection
of the environment, plastics can make a decisive contribution.
Well-insulated houses use less energy for heating, and
lightweight vehicles consume less fuel and produce less
pollutants. In countries such as Germany, with automotive
production of about 40 million, the average automobile
already has 150 kilograms of plastics replacing about
300 kilograms of other materials. This reduces fuel consumption
by 4.5 billion litres and cuts CO2 emissions by about
ten billion kilograms annually.
But BASF is determined to find even more efficient plastics for
the future: more efficient in production, and more efficient in
use – materials which use even less energy but are just as
effective in meeting the high requirements placed upon them by customers,
users, and the environment.
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| Ecoefficiency analysis
as a tool for Sustainable Development |
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In support of sustainability, BASF has
joined with its business partners in pioneering the development
of a strategic tool: ecoefficiency analysis. This permits both economics
and ecology to be included in the equation when products and processes
are being developed and optimized. Then when the various alternatives
are considered the most ecoefficient can be selected. The entire
life cycle of a product is examined – from extraction of the
raw materials through to recovery of the product.
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| A model of
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Used plastics are a valuable source of raw
materials. Mechanical recycling, feedstock recycling, and
energy recovery – there are many ways of regaining
the value inherent in plastics. BASF has achieved considerable
expertise in the field of recycling, in particular feedstock
recycling of mixed plastic waste packaging. We have developed
our own process and demonstrated its effectiveness on a
pilot plant. The Company is committed to the concept of
integrated waste management, and promotes this approach
not only through its products but through technologies
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