Solvay has been a member of the global chemistry industry's Responsible Care® programme since it inception in 1992. As part of our commitment to people's Safety and Health and to the Environment in which we all have to live, we have established guidelines:
The guidelines cover the sequence of five steps laid down in the ISO 14001 standard: management commitment, planning, implementation, monitoring the performance obtained, and review in order to decide on further action and thus ensure continual improvement.They cover, in particular:
Our commitment to these principles takes many forms. We not only ensure that our plants operate to the highest safety and environmental standards, we are also engaged in research into methods and products which serve society and help to preserve the environment. For example, we have developed our VINYLOOP® PVC recycling process and have been recycling rigid PVC waste into pipes, and soft PVC into industrial foils for years.
