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Biodiversity and natural areas
Solvay 7 action lines
Pierre Coërs
HSE – Industrial Management
Name
Biodiversity and natural areas
7 action lines for Solvay
1. Rehabilitating large quarries
and settling ponds
2. Promoting biodiversity in our
sites
3. Taking part in protection of
natural environment around
our sites
4. Ensuring sustainable
biosourced raw materials
5. Assessing the impact of our
effluents on living organisms
6. Protéger la ressource en eau
dans les régions en stress
(Solvay Elclor Brazil: large natural
7. Supporting science on
biodiversity areas to protect)
Name
1. Rehabilitating large quarries and
settling ponds
2000 ha replanted on Solvay lands,
• Multi-annual, large-scale rehabilitation
programs of natural areas are on-going
in many Solvay sites. In particular, the
biological rehabilitation of old dikes and
quarries on Solvay’s lands has been
under way since decades.
• Around 2000 hectares have been
actively replanted, often with trees.
Some of the rehabilitated areas are even
now recognized as nature reserves to be
protected.
• In addition, Solvay owns and maintains
over 8000 hectares of land around its
sites, where biodiversity is de facto
protected from housing or roads and
plays its role as a natural buffer.
Example of Couillet, Belgium
1bis. Rehabilitating natural areas
2000 ha replanted on Solvay lands,
example in Dombasle (Jura)
• Partie importante des surfaces du
site de l’usine gérée en «zones
vertes », en zones humides et en
plans d’eau, soit au total 300 ha.
• 200.000 arbres et arbustes
replantés
2. Promoting biodiversity in our sites
Many action on a case
by case basis in Solvay
sites
ex :
•Neder Over Hembeek
Young falcons in Jemeppe, Belgium
•Nature reserve in
Santa Luce (Italy)
•…
3. Taking part in protection of natural environment around our sites Example : "Clean Up Day" (septembre 2012) du Galgenschor, une réserve naturelle le long l'Escaut (en face de Solvic Lillo). Journée organisée par Natuurpunt. Solvic Lillo a collaboré à nettoyer cette réserve naturelle (déchets venant des bâteaux sur l'Escaut).
4. Ensuring sustainable biosourced raw
materials
Solvay’s green chemistry
cover a range of renewable
raw materials
• wood pulp Expected world Biomass Trade Routes (*)
• bio-ethanol
• C12-C14 alcohols
• guar split
• lauryl alcohol
• hydrogenated coconut oil
• glycerin
• coconut fatty acid
• + Several industrial projects thoroughly
investigated in wood-based energy (*) based on projected final energy demand in 2020
sourcing.
Name
4bis Ensuring sustainable biosourced
raw materials : The Epicerol® process
The Epicerol® process is one of the world
largest “green chemistry” industrial projects.
It relies on natural glycerin, a by-product of
biodiesel from rapeseed, oil palm or
soybean
Solvay strives to work with suppliers who share its Solvay’s manufacturing units based on its proprietary
Epicerol process probably constitute one of the
sustainability commitment.
world’s largest “green chemistry” projects (excluding
• Rapeseed - of European origin, it is covered by the European the biofuel industry), in terms of volumes of bio-
Directive on renewable energy which commits suppliers to based chemicals produced. The Epicerol process
meets the 12 principles of green chemistry as defined
various criteria of sustainability, including biodiversity.
by the US Environmental Protection Agency:
• Oil palm - of Southeast Asia origin, suppliers are members of • From the extraction of raw materials to the output of our
the Round Table for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Part of factories, the process reduces by 55% the consumption
the supply by RSPO’s members is certified according to of non-renewable energy and by 60% (of which 35% of
biogenic CO2) the overall impact on climate change,
RSPO’s criteria on protection of biodiversity, soil, water,... compared to the conventional method based on
and working conditions (no child labour). propylene.
• Soybean oil - of Latin America origin: the supplier is • In its own industrial perimeter, the Epicerol process
committed to environmental specifications excluding reduces by a factor 8 the volume of chlorinated by-
products, of 10 the water consumption and of 2 the
deforestation, child labour, or the irresponsible use of chlorine consumption. It also significantly reduces the
pesticides. volume of liquid effluents.
Chlorinated Water Chlorine
Pull out from oil byproducts consumption consumption
chain
divided by 8 divided by 10 divided by 2
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5. « Indices biotiques » pour mesurer
l’impact sur la biodiversité aquatique
Objectifs
suivre l’amélioration continue de la
qualité de nos rejets aqueux (après
traitement physique et/ou biologique)
par des mesures in situ dans le
milieu naturel
Principe
la qualité écologique du milieu
récepteur aquatique (rivière, baie)
s’évalue par la richesse de sa flore
et de sa faune (biodiversité) –
« decision tree »
6. Protecting ecosystems by saving the
water resource
35 sites identified as in
potential water scarcity
situations
Action plans to reduce water
withdrawals focus in priority Example : Solvay now recycles
on groundwater abstraction water and has reduced
and on the 35 sites
consumption from phreatic by 4
identified as in potential
water scarcity situations, million m3/year in its Rosignano
current or future, due to plant in Tuscany, protecting the
climate change. phreatic and the natural
• Currrent freshwhater water ecosystems
withdraxwals by Solvay
amount to 600 Millions m3.
The impact on water
availability is lower as a
large part of water is used Rosignano Factory
14,0
Rosignano factory soft water consumption
Site Water
Soft WaterConsum ption (excl sea water)
Consumption Total Consumption
12,0
0,7
for cooling purposes and 10,0 0,6
Sea
Consumption (Mm3/y)
2,5 3,3 3,3
8,0 5,4 2,9 2,9 3,0
4,0
Water
then returned to the same 6,0
1,5 0,8 0,7
1,0 0,7
1,3
90 %
environmental compartment
4,0
5,9 6,3 6,4 6,4
5,4 5,6 5,8
5,2
2,0
Soft Water 10%
(surface to surface). 0,0
1998 2003
surface
2006 2007
underground
2008 2009 2010
Public purif. plant
2011
ARET USA
Name7. Supporting science on biodiversity
Example : Technical and
financial support to
international scientific
missions:
Studying the biodiversity of
the tropical primary forest :
the “SolVin - Bretzel” in
Madagascar (2001),
Panama (2003),
the "Arbodôme" in Vanuatu
Islands (2006)Biodiversité – Edward O Wilson
Auteur de “The Crisis of Biological Diversity”, publié
en 1985, (…)
• « Nous devons la base même de notre existence à ce
que produisent les plantes vertes, ainsi que des
légions de micro-organismes et de tout petit
invertébrés.
• … « Le grand défi du XXIème siècle sera de donner à
chacun sur terre un niveau de vie décent tout en
préservant autant que possible ce qui reste du monde
vivant. »
NameApproche milieu, exemple
Amélioration continue
de nos effluents par des
traitements physico-chimiques
et/ou biologiques
Suivi de la Qualité écologique
du milieu récepteur
par la mesure d’indices biotiques
Approche amont/aval rejet IBGN
avec note associée (macroinvertébrés benthiques)
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