Severskiy Pipe Works and Polevskoy Cryolite Works become Polevskoy’s top air polluters

2 February 2007 (14:52)

According to the report on the state of the environment and the way environmental factors affect the health of Sverdlovsk Region population, Severskiy Pipe Works and Polevskoy Cryolite Works are the top air polluters of Polevskoy, Sverdlovsk Region. Their shares in the total amount of atmospheric emissions in the town come to 62.7% and 22%, respectively. The enterprises located in Polevskoy are fitted with equipment that only recovers 48.3% of emitted pollutants; however, the figure comes to 70.1% in respect of building material suppliers, to 60.3% as far as the builders are concerned, to 71.4% for non-ferrous metallurgical enterprises, to 29.7% for timber and woodworking industry, and to 29.8% for ferrous metallurgical companies.


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