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What
use are reduction, recovery and recycling
if no-one reuses these products?
It's good to use - as we do in our company
- recycled and ecological paper, recycled
ink cartridges, folders made from recycled
cardboard, water from cleaning processes and
reused in the refrigeration system, carry
out the selective collection of all possible
fractions, increase clean production, even
though people believe - due to a lack of information
- that recycled oil (as well as other products
of more complicated use) is not high quality
and is expensive, despite the fact that we
have demonstrated in different ways that the
base oils produced by CATOR (REGENOILŽ) have
at least the same characteristics as oil from
first refining, and have been awarded European
(ACEA'98) and American (API)
certificates and homologations that no other
recycled oil has obtained. It is this policy
that we wish to promote, the practice of using
recycled products, that are as
good as those produced using raw materials,
trying to protect the environment and promote
sustainable development: raw materials are
a limited resource that must be conserved.
CATOR
and the Generalitat de Catalunya have actively
supported the reuse of these oils in their
fleet of vehicles from the start, like many
other European countries. Catalan Town Halls
are starting to use them.
We've
already used many resources to carry out this
promotion, but we won't stop here:
- co-operation
with organizations concerned about the environment:
-
ecologist associations (Mediterrānia,
Centre d'Iniciatives Ecolōgiques),
- professional
associations (FECATRA),
-
public organizations (town halls, comarcal
councils, PIMEC-SEFES Environmental
Commission ,...),
-
companies (FL Iberia, Magneti Marelli,
Infineum);
-
organization of visits to our re-refining
plant
- for
schools (IES Jaume Huguet, IES Pons
Icart, Rovira i Virgili...),
- occupational
workshops (Mas Carandell, TAD'O Baix
Camp...),
- universities
(Rovira i Virgili, Universitat de Girona,
Escola d'Enginyers,...),
- environmental
education workshops (Mediterrānia, Cel
Rogent,...),
- professional
colleges, companies and public bodies;
-
conferences
- Madeira
Regional Agency of Energy and the Environment,
Recyclable Products Market in Europe
- Portugal, November 1994
- AMBIENTĀLIA,
Collection and Treatment of Used Mineral
Oil in Catalonia - Barcelona, March
1995
-
Institut Catalā de Tecnologia, Industrial
waste management - Valorization of used
mineral oils - Barcelona, April 1997
-
Institut Catalā de l'Energia, technical
conference about the treatment and valorization
of used industrial oils: technology
and practical cases, Collection and
Treatment of used industrial oil - Barcelona,
October 1998
- Environmental
Commission of the Association of Industrial
Engineers in Catalonia - Regeneration
of used oil - Barcelona, March 1999
- Polytechnic
University of Catalonia, Spanish Waste
Club, International Recycling Symposium
- Used oil - Barcelona, March 2000
- QUERCUS,
International Seminar of the Regeneration
of Used Oil - Portugal, June 2000
-
Colegio de Ingenieros Industriales de
Cataluņa, Junta de Residus and Centre
Catalā del Reciclatge, environmentally
correct public spending -Recycled products.
Lubricating oils - Barcelona, September
2000
-
Club Europeo de los Residuos, European
special waste management: used vehicles,
used oil and tires - Valencia, October
2000
- FECATRA
and CIRA, First cycle of conferences
for the mechanical workshop and service
- Sant Just Desvern, October 2000
-
Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de
Igualada, November 2000
- sponsorship
and participation in trade fairs:
- FECATRA
- First congress
-
RESIDUA 1995,
- AMBIENTĀLIA
1995,
-
EXPORECYCLING 1996, Barcelona
- ECOMED
1999, Barcelona
- Co-operation
and the Environment, Mediterrānia 1998,
1999 and 2000, Tarragona.
- II
Earth Week, April 2000, Abrera
-
FECATRA and CIRA, 1st technical conferences
for the mechanical workshop and service
- Sant Just Desvern, October 2000
-
co-operation in research projects:
-
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona
-
IRTA - Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia
Agroalimentāries, Barcelona
-
participation in different media:
- radio
(Onda Cero - Rādio Salut),
-
press, specialized magazines (TecnoAmbiente,
Residuos, Auto&Entorno, IntecUrbe, Talleres
en Comunicaciķn, Dossier Ambiental).
- practical
agreements with some organizations:
-
Instituto y Universitat Rovira i Virgili,
- IES
Jaume Huguet.
-
co-operation with organizations in la Vila
d'Alcover:
- Club
de Patinaje,
- Grupo
de Teatro "Els Noctāmbuls",
- Club
de Fútbol,
- Club
de Fútbol Sala Femenino,
- Asociaciķn
de Amigos de la Virgen,
- Cofradía
de la Puríssima Sang NSJ,
- Xiquets
de la Vila d'Alcover,
- Centro
Literario.
And
now we want to get even more involved having
created this Centro de Educaciķn y Formaciķn
Medioambiental, co-ordinating all the
activities we have been carrying out and incorporating
new ones.
This
centre offers the following advantages for
everyone:
- active
promotion of sustainable development and
environmental awareness and protection,
-
public information,
-
continuing education of personnel,
-
promotion of selective collection and the
use of recycled products, with the experience
CATOR among others,
-
spread environmental legislation of the
Generalitat de Catalunya, Spanish State
and the European Union.
Use
recycled products: the Environment will thank
you!
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