Clean Baltic Sea

Kemira participates in Baltic Sea Action Group's Commitment to Act

Kemira has signed a Baltic Sea Commitment to Act. The company announced the commitment in August 2009 in Helsinki, Finland, at the Kemira Baltic Sea Summit. The summit focused on ongoing projects and concrete, planned actions concerning waste water treatment in the Baltic Sea catchment area. Over 100 participants and speakers represented financial institutions and environmental authorities, including participants at ministerial level, from water works and different organizations.

The Commitment to Act was initiated by the Finnish Baltic Sea Action Group (BSAG), a neutral organization founded in March 2008 for the rescue of the Baltic Sea. Kemira's business activities are playing a direct role in decreasing the wastewater load in the Baltic Sea. A significant share of the communities and cities within the Baltic Sea watershed clean their waste water using chemicals supplied by Kemira.

In its Commitment to Act, Kemira commits to lend its expertise and research efforts to returning sludge-borne valuable nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus, safely into the natural cycle without causing eutrophication in waterways. At the moment, the Baltic Sea Action Group is assembling a set of concrete actions to save the Baltic Sea, which is the most polluted sea in the world. All results of these commitments will be evaluated in the Baltic Sea Action Summit in Helsinki, Finland in February 2010.

>> Press Release August 28, 2009: Kemira participates in Baltic Sea Action Group's Commitment to Act

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