Our drive to continuously improve our environmental performance includes a relentless focus on monitoring and reducing emissions to air, water and soil, optimising resource, energy and water usage, and improving waste disposal practices.
Energy
As an energy-intensive industrial company, energy-related emissions account for the majority of our operational GHG footprint and energy efficiency is critical to our competitiveness. Striving for continuous improvement of our site operations worldwide makes good business sense, not only to reduce costs but to increase INEOS' resource efficiency and drive our emission reduction strategy.
|
Final energy consumption [TWh] |
2023 |
2022 |
2019 |
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|
Total energy consumption |
77.4 |
85.9 |
93.4 |
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Total fuel consumption |
62.6 |
69.5 |
75.3 |
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|
Non-renewable fuels - other |
56.3 |
63.0 |
69.8 |
|
|
Non-renewable fuels - hydrogen |
6.2 |
6.3 |
5.4 |
|
|
Renewable fuels |
0.1 |
0.2 |
0.1 |
|
|
Net electricity consumption |
9.1 |
9.8 |
11.2 |
|
|
Non-renewable electricity |
8.7 |
9.6 |
10.9 |
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|
Renewable electricity |
2.0 |
2.1 |
2.4 |
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|
Electricity sold |
1.6 |
1.9 |
2.0 |
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|
Net heat consumption |
5.6 |
6.6 |
6.9 |
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|
Non-renewable heat |
9.0 |
10.0 |
11.1 |
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|
Renewable heat |
0.3 |
0.3 |
0.3 |
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|
Heat sold |
3.7 |
3.6 |
4.5 |
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Net other utility consumption |
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.0 |
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|
Non-renewable other utility |
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.0 |
|
|
Renewable other utility |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
|
|
Other utility sold |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
Water
We closely monitor data from all INEOS manufacturing sites to manage our water balance and optimise our water strategy. The water consumption per site is calculated as the difference between withdrawal and discharge. The balance is shared with each INEOS business for appropriate water planning and actions.
| Water withdrawal and discharge 2023 [Mm3] | Water stress sites |
Other sites |
| Total water withdrawal | 329.2 | 665.2 |
| Seawater | 289.7 | 197.8 |
| Produced water | 1.6 | 5.1 |
| Surface water | 8.6 | 205.8 |
| Groundwater | 6.2 | 27.2 |
| Third party water | 22.3 | 226.6 |
| Third party from surface waters | 20.9 | 180.7 |
| Third party from seawater | 0 | 0 |
| Third party from groundwater | 1.3 | 44.4 |
| Third party from produced water | 0 | 1.5 |
| Other water withdrawal | 0.8 | 2.8 |
| Total water discharge | 312.9 | 600.9 |
| Seawater | 293.4 | 293.8 |
| Surface water | 18.3 | 273.2 |
| Groundwater | 0.9 | 4.8 |
| Third party water | 0.3 | 27.7 |
| Other water withdrawal | 0 | 1.3 |
| Total Water consumption | 16.3 | 64.3 |
Waste
To be transparent and aligned with international reporting standards, we monitor various waste categories and aim to set targets for wider product groups. We strive to minimise the waste we produce, and where possible to reuse or recycle waste to the maximum extent possible. We only send waste for incineration (with or without energy recovery), landfilling or other disposal route as a last resort.
| Waste generation 2023 [kt] | Hazardous waste | Non-hazardous waste | |
| Total | 250.3 | 415.0 | |
| Recycling | 51.0 | 52.2 | |
| Offsite | 37.0 | 51.4 | |
| Onsite | 14.1 | 0.8 | |
| Reuse | 1.3 | 10.5 | |
| Offsite | 0.4 | 8.0 | |
| Onsite | 0.9 | 2.4 | |
| Other recovered | 3.1 | 8.6 | |
| Recovery of energy | 91.3 | 21.3 | |
| Offsite | 27.9 | 20.6 | |
| Onsite | 63.4 | 0.7 | |
| Incineration | 86.0 | 19.0 | |
| Offsite | 11.9 | 10.8 | |
| Onsite | 74.1 | 8.1 | |
| Landfill | 4.7 | 280.6 | |
| Offsite | 4.6 | 60.3 | |
| Onsite | 0.1 | 220.3 | |
| Other disposed | 13.0 | 22.9 | |
| Total recovered | 55.3 | 71.3 | |
| Total disposed | 195.0 | 343.8 | |
Other Air Emissions
Chemical processes release air emissions, other than greenhouse gasses, including mainly combustion gasses such as NOx and SOx. As part of our pollution management system, we monitor our air emissions at each site and globally report NOx, SOx, CO, NH3, POP, VOC, HAP, PM and ODS emissions. This not only enables us to ensure that we remain well below the limits determined by local authorities but also helps us identify measures to reduce our impact.
| Air emissions | 2023 |
| Non-GHG air emissions [kt] | |
| NOx | 8.07 |
| SOx | 0.58 |
| CO | 40.40 |
| NH3 | 0.20 |
| POPs | 0 |
| VOC | 11.39 |
| HAPs | 0.15 |
| PM | 0.65 |
| ODS [kt CFC11-eq] | 0.08 |