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The requirement for leitmotif
WASTE RECOVERY
A HISTORICAL ETHIC AT CHIMIREC
Our recovery processes:
responses to the imperatives
of environmental preservation
From the outset, the CHIMIREC Group
has sought alternative solutions to
landfill and incineration to make better 1985 - Regeneration of clear oils
use of the waste collected. With the Recovery rate: 95 %
regeneration of clear oils, the first
internal recovery process designed in 1996 - Oil filters
1985, the CHIMIREC Group was already Recovery rate: 100%
part of a circular economy approach.
2007 - PolyChlorobiphenyls (PCBs)
Recovery rate: 100% of oils with PCB content
< 2,000 ppm - 95% of the materials used in
electrical appliances.
2013 - Transformation of waste into Energy
Substitution Fuel (ESF)
Recovery rate: 100%
2014 - Coolant regeneration
Recovery rate: 99.5%
2014 - Reuse of plastic packaging
Recovery rate: 99%
2014 - Recycling plastic packaging
Recovery rate: 100%
2019 - Treatment of polluted water
Recovery rate: 78%
KEY POINTS
2019 - Industrial sludge treatment
Recovery rate: 65%
2019 - The treatment and recovery of Hazardous and
Key Figures 2019: Non-Hazardous Waste by Solar Drying
Recovery rate: 94%
97,500 tonnes of waste were recovered
or recycled in CHIMIREC treatment centres.
75.5%: overall recovery rate
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