According to the plant’s PR
office, the Bandar Imam Petrochemical Plant’s Central Treatment Project is one
of the largest environmental projects of its kind in the country, which had progressed
by 56% by the end of last calendar year which ended on March 19.
The company owns the country’s
largest landfill where it buries waste from other companies beside its own.
Other environmental activities by
the company include planting over 8 million seedlings in recent years.
Furthermore, installation of
online chimney analyzer systems in the complex, quality improvement and daily
monitoring of all pre-treatment systems and wastewater treatment plants,
replacement of all the complex’s lamps with low-consumption ones and purchase
of a lamp elimination device, expansion of the company's IT infrastructure and electronic
correspondence in order to reduce traffic and paper consumption have been other
projects of Bandar Imam Petrochemical Plant in order to protect the
environment.
It also managed to reduce the COD
content of its wastewater by 15% in the year in comparison to the preceding
year.