Numbers and scenarios of the 2019 Conou Sustainability Report
Who was there and what was said at the presentation of the 2019 Sustainability Report of the Conou (Consortium for the management, collection and treatment of used mineral oils)
“In times of pandemic, used oil is not collected with Zoom or Teams, but always with trucks. This is why we have continued to take the health of those who work in our supply chain into high consideration ”. At the presentation of the Report of Sustainability 2019 Conou, National Consortium for the Management, Collection and Treatment of Mineral Oils Used , it is obviously also spoke of Coronavirus. And Riccardo Piunti , vice president of the consortium did so, recalling the importance of teamwork that places Italy in first place in Europe.
WHAT EMERGES FROM THE CONOU REPORT
Increase in collection and regeneration, focus on waste quality and an improved and promptly represented environmental impact. These are the main evidences of the activity carried out in 2019 by Conou, the National Consortium for the Management, Collection and Treatment of Used Mineral Oils, contained in the latest Sustainability Report presented today publicly online. The event, which saw the interventions of some representatives of the institutions, from the Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers Riccardo Fraccaro, to the MEP Simona Bonafè, to the Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of the Environment Roberto Morassut, and the President of Legambiente Stefano Ciafani, was an opportunity to photograph the progress made by the Conou chain.
THE NUMBERS OF THE REPORT
In 2019 191.3 thousand tons of used mineral oil were collected (+2.5 percentage points compared to 2018), all sent for regeneration. An activity that made it possible to hit the 100% circularity target as in the previous year and to obtain 128 thousand tons of regenerated oil of equivalent quality to that of first refining by re-introducing them to consumption.
FRACCARO: "THE REAL CHALLENGE IS TO INCREASE GDP BUT NOT CO2"
“Growing by reducing carbon dioxide and climate-altering emissions will be the real challenge for the near future”, said Riccardo Fraccaro , undersecretary to the presidency of the Council: “In the Po Valley, pollution is high because they are highly productive areas. So let's take the example of CONOU which demonstrates how it is possible to grow sustainably. Then of course we will need aid and facilities, a direct investment plan and a very clear political direction ”.
MORASSUT: "WITH CONOU ITALIA A VIRTUOUS EXAMPLE"
The presentation of the Conou report was an opportunity to talk about the environment in a broad sense. “Cities tend to grow, but land cannot be consumed indefinitely, so we need to change the construction process. This entails other problems, costs and the need to intervene with tax concessions and stimuli ", said Roberto Morassut , undersecretary of the Ministry of the Environment" We need to intervene, with large investments, in order to proceed with the total decanization of local public transport " . “Italy – the executive representative recalled, returning to issues more similar to Conou – is in any case one of the most virtuous European countries in the circular economy sector”.
BONAFÈ: "EUROPE IS THE FIRST CONTINENT TO LAW ON CLIMATE"
“We should take much more seriously the calls and condemnations that come to us from Europe in terms of the environment, given that Brussels is a world vanguard,” said MEP Simona Bonafè . “Environmental sustainability and circular economy should be issues that are not abandoned according to the majority that rises to the government. After all, the business class asks for certainty of the rules to set in motion those virtuous processes that we as legislators and citizens ask of it ”.
CIAFANI: "IN THE ITALY SECTOR MORE WELL THAN GERMANY"
“The experience of the recovery and regeneration of waste oils sees us excel not only in Europe but also in the world”, recalled Stefano Ciafani, president of Legambiente, for once not a critical voice of the situation. “The numbers tell us that we are much better than the Germans. They tell better what they do, we do not so well, but data in hand there is no doubt that we know how to do it better. This does not mean that we are bunglers in many other areas. But the experience of the CONOU consortium should also be replicated in many other areas, such as used batteries ".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/numeri-e-scenari-del-rapporto-di-sostenibilita-2019-del-conou/ on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 11:43:45 +0000.