Our 13,000 employees are careful and efficient stewards of the raw materials and energy used in making and delivering petrochemicals to our customers. We are committed to monitoring our progress and continually seek to reduce our emissions and waste footprint, whether it’s in an office or a manufacturing facility As part of our Environmental Business Planning process, we review key environmental drivers and identify significant focus areas. Then we incorporate specific plans for those focus areas into our business plans. ExxonMobil Chemical established Environmental Engineering and Operating Standards in 1992, which set minimum environmental performance requirements for all new construction. Review our progress on key efforts related to the following aspects of sustainable development: - Energy intensity
- Air emissions
- Solid waste disposal
- Flaring
Energy Intensity
| Addressing the risk posed by rising greenhouse gas emissions is an important issue facing our world today. Nearly all (99.9 percent on an equivalent CO2 basis) of ExxonMobil Chemical’s greenhouse gas emissions are due to energy use. In 2007, we continued our efforts to reduce the amount of energy needed to produce each pound of our product. Overall, since 2000, the energy required to produce a pound of product has been reduced by more than 15 percent. Additional efforts are under way to manufacture our products while minimizing energy consumption.
|  | | | Air Emissions
| By implementing best practices and new technology, we have reduced our air emissions per pound of product by more than 50 percent since 1995. Reducing air emissions is an ongoing area of focus.
|  | | | Solid Waste Disposal
| ExxonMobil minimizes waste generation where possible, recycles and reuses waste where prevention is not possible, and seeks to reduce the amount of solid waste that must be disposed. Since 1995, the solid waste sent to disposal per pound of production has been reduced by more than 60 percent.
|  | | | Flaring
| In response to rising public concerns about flaring from refineries and chemical plants, ExxonMobil Chemical set a goal to reduce hydrocarbon flaring. In just four years, we have reduced flaring by 15 percent.
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