Recyclable packaging is issued wherever possible throughout the Company.	Water consumption at Elementis has been reducing since 2000.	Waste water treatment plant ground breaking, Elementis Specialties, Charleston, US, 2002.

Non-Hazardous waste (mt/mt)

At our Specialties plant at Livingston, UK, a programme has been introduced that reclaims wet clay residues produced as part of the manufacturing process. This hectorite clay residue, mostly calcium carbonate, is now used as a liming agent in agricultural applications. Bentonite clay residue has low permeability and is used as an engineering material to line and cap a landfill site. It is intended that clay waste from our Charleston, US, plant will be put to a similar beneficial use.

At the Specialties Hectorite mine at Newberry Springs, California, US, the residues from the plant evaporation pond are recycled. This reduces calcite waste and the quantity of new ore to be mined. Non-recyclable waste is sold as a marine base lagoon liner which reduces land disturbance for mining of other clays.

The new continuous process at Specialty Rubber, Malaysia, significantly reduces the generation of reject rubber, which previously went to landfill. A process has also been developed to convert both waste and reject cured rubber, which would otherwise go to landfill, into a general lining material.

In the UK and Europe there is a legal obligation to recover and recycle packaging waste. Elementis fulfils the legal obligations for packaging recovery and recycling through participating in approved schemes (for example, in the UK through membership of VALPAK).

Water consumption
Elementis does not operate manufacturing facilities in areas of extreme water shortage, with the exception of the Specialties Hectorite mine in the Californian desert. Nevertheless the Company recognises the global need to conserve water. Water consumption at Elementis has been reducing since 2000.

Water consumption (million litres)

The Elementis Specialties plant at Charleston, US, is implementing a twostage project for wastewater treatment. This will provide cleaner effluent and reduce the demand for fresh water by reusing 90 per cent of the water previously discharged to the city's wastewater treatment. The main contribution comes from the reverse osmosis unit, commissioned in 2003. The full impact will occur in 2004, and should save an estimated 35 million cubic metres per year.

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