Mondi - Your Partner in Sustainability

We have made a public commitment to integrating sustainable development into our business model. From growing, harvesting and purchasing our raw materials, through our industrial production processes to branding and distribution, we are committed to providing our customers with the products they need at the lowest possible financial, environmental and social costs.

Our approach to product stewardship is based on the Life-Cycle Initiative set out in the United Nations Environmental Programme, which we signed in 2009. This advocates an integrated approach to the management of a product’s environmental, safety and health impacts across its entire lifecycle.

All of our environmentally significant material mills are ISO 14001 certified, a standard aimed at reducing the environmental footprint of an operation and decreasing the pollution and waste its produces. As we are firmly committed to adopting cleaner production methods and playing our part in combating climate change, we have set ourselves challenging targets and are well on the way to achieving or even exceeding them.

Mondi's full targets and performance data can be found on our Sustainability section.

1 CO₂e (CO₂ equivalent)
Factors called Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) have been developed, and are used to convert non-CO₂ greenhouse gas into an amount of CO₂ with an equivalent warming potential. Relevant non-CO₂ greenhouse gases for the pulp and paper industry are N₂O (GWP 310) and CH₄ (GWP 21). The emission of all relevant greenhouse gases is expressed as the equivalent amount of CO₂, given as CO₂-equivalents, abbreviated as CO₂e.

2 Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)
The amount of oxygen required to degrade the organic compounds of waste water, commonly used to measure the amount of organic compounds in water. COD refers to total COD into receiving waters after treatment, measured in tonnes

3 Adsorbable organic halogens (AOX)
Expresses the amount of chlorine-bound organic substances in waste water

4 Total Reduced Sulphides (TRS)
Reduced sulphur compounds. TRS is a gaseous mixture of compounds consisting mainly of hydrogen sulphide H₂S in the paper and packaging industry. TRS compounds produce offensive odours.

Last change: 01/07/2010