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We are working continuously on gradually reducing the environmental impact of our production facilities. Our goals are ambitious ones: We want to reduce CO2 emissions from our manufacturing processes by a total of about 10% by the year 2015. In addition, we intend to further reduce our energy and water consumption, as well as the amount of waste generated, with the goal of achieving annual reductions of 3% in each of these areas, plus an annual 2% increase in our waste recycling and reuse rate. This will enable us to further reduce the raw materials we consume and the energy required for waste recycling. The figures for 2011 shown in the following diagrams are preliminary. *Continental environmental goals Our energy efficiency measures are leading to a considerable reduction of specific CO2 emissions per ton of the product. Various activities conducted at our plants, such as sharpening our employees’ awareness of this issue, are aimed at reducing our specific CO2 emissions by about another 10% between now and 2015.
*Continental environmental goals The economic recovery reflected from 2009 to 2011 rise in energy consumption. At the same time, however, energy efficiency improved substantially, leading to a considerable reduction of the specific energy consumption compared with 2009. With the help of Continental’s environmental goals, we are striving towards a further reduction of energy consumption by about 10% by 2015.
*Continental environmental goals The trend in specific water consumption has been fairly positive since 2009. The increased use of closed cooling water circuits and the augmented training of employees will also help us sustain the trend to reduce consumption in the future, and bring us closer to our target for 2015.
*Continental environmental goals Despite a slight increase in waste, we were able in 2011 to also notably reduce the amount of specific waste generated while at the same time improving our waste recycling rate. Our goal remains to increase the recycling rate by 2% each year.
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