St. Benedict presents the first results of the project for the reduction of C02 emissions.
Source San Benedetto Scorzè (Venice) wants to introduce on the market, with the bottle Easy, the first mineral water "carbon neutral", ie emissions (offset) of CO2 equal to zero .
The project, launched in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, is the first step of the voluntary agreement signed by the company for the promotion of joint projects aimed at the analysis e alla neutralizzazione dell’impatto sul clima dell’acqua imbottigliata.
Il primo risultato del programma è stato presentato lunedì scorso dal presidente di San Benedetto Spa, Enrico Zoppas (nella foto), alla presenza del Sottosegretario all’Ambiente, on. Roberto Menia e del Direttore generale del Ministero dell’Ambiente, Corrado Clini.
Si tratta della misurazione della Carbon Footprint a livello globale e della neutralizzazione dell’impronta per un primo formato.
Sono state infatti stimate le emissioni di CO2 per l’intero product life cycle of all sizes water brand San Benedetto: the raw materials used for packaging to recycle post-consumer bottles.
So have been identified for measures that will reduce or offset emissions in the period 2009-2012.
As the first carbon neutral goal was selected the Easy Pet 1 liter, with an estimated 2,000 tons of CO2 emissions. These emissions have been neutralized through the purchase of carbon credits such as "Toward" resulting from the implementation, in Thailand, a plant generating heat energy from biogas recovered.
More generally, the company aims to reduce emissions by working on multiple fronts.
Tri The project, for example, provides for the combined production of heat, cold and electricity as an energy source by using rapeseed oil, the project was presented to ENEL for the necessary permissions.
At the same time will be made more efficient air-conditioning units by the recovery heat 30% of the areas of the bottling plant in Scoresby, for which he is currently checking the feasibility.
There is also an area that covers the energy optimization of bottling plants, with the introduction of high efficiency motors and installation of inverters; thirty engines of this type are already in the wards.
So we worked on the bottle, through a weight reduction (and therefore used PET) that affected the sizes 0.5 lt, 1.0 lt, 1.5 lt and 2.0 lt. The company is also studying the closed-loop recycling of packaging for which is "technologically ready, pending the introduction of the national legislation of reference."
Meanwhile, in April has started a pilot at some outlets of the Group Pam for the collection of PET bottles in order to start their recovery from authorized companies.
The emission reduction also involves the installation of photovoltaic modules on some covers and storage yards (have already begun the paperwork) and improving the efficiency the production of compressed air through a system of checking the operation of compressors that uses innovative technology to activate and modulate the flow machines depending on the request of the establishment.
source: www.polimerica.it
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