POLLUTANTS REGISTER MAKES ECO-CHOICES EASIER
December 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PAINT and coatings industry is being offered a data resource by the European Commission and European Environmental Agency through a new pollution register. It shows in 2007, (the latest figures available), the European dyes and pigments industry released 969,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air, water and 652kg of nickel and compounds into water, for instance. *http://prtr.ec.europa.eu/
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THE PAINT and coatings industry is being offered a data resource by the European Commission and European Environmental Agency through a new pollution register. It shows in 2007, (the latest figures available), the European dyes and pigments industry released 969,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air, water and 652kg of nickel and compounds into water, for instance. *http://prtr.ec.europa.eu/
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