Building Value for Society: Sustainability of Gypsum: our Assets
The Gypsum Industry generates a prosperous and sustainable environment. An established tradition in the responsible use of natural resoruces and in the rehabilitation of depleted gypsum quarries is now matched by an active stance in the recovery and reprocessing of gypsum waste.
Eurogypsum drafted a brochure published in June 2008 . For more details, download it.
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Waste Policy Paper: Building Value for Society
Gypsum plasterboard is extensively used all over Europe to create interior walls and ceilings. The environmental loads from the production and use and disposal of Gypsum plasterboard can be minimised by the recycling of Gypsum. This raw material is indeed fully recyclable.
This policy paper identifies efforts undertaken by the Gypsum Industry in improving processes to enable increased volumes of recycled products to be used again in plasterboard manufacturing. This is not an easy task, even though the willingness to progress is strong within the European Gypsum Industry (October 2007)
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Gypsum Products Ergonomy based on Risk Assessment
In order to tackle health (WMDSs) and safety (falls and other accidents) on the construction site for Gypsum products, the Gypsum industry thinks that we should strive for a comprehensive approach based on risk assessment for each task, which will determine the solutions. We need to lighten the load, not necessarily by decreasing the product load, but by changing the behaviour of workers via organisational (job scheduling, project planning, site management that allows sufficient time for the work to be completed, etc.) and engineering risk controls (mechanical aids).
On this basis, Eurogypsum drafted a brochure published in September 2007. For more details, download it.
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Sustainability Brochure-en.pdf
