BP Chemicals releases world-wide emissions data
Haznews, June, 1992
The BP Chemicals Group has published its first estimates of its emissions world-wide. Emissions data were gathered from the Group's 10 main sites, which account for 75% of production, to give an estimated 170,000 tonnes of total emissions from those sites in 1990. This could be equivalent to a Group total of about 225,000 tonnes. The emissions data include nitrogen and sulphur oxides and carbon monoxide but exclude carbon dioxide. Chief executive officer, Bryan Sanderson, said that BP Chemicals' key environmental targets were: a reduction in hydrocarbon emissions by 50% and a reduction in emissions to water by two-thirds by 1997, using the new 1990 data as a baseline. Current hydrocarbon emissions to air are about 45,000 tonnes per year from the 10 main sites and...
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