[Translation prepared by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

How Aktobe plants promise to reduce emissions into the atmosphere, 2 February 2023

Representatives of factories promise to modernise their plants, install additional filters and LED screens on the streets, where they will continuously show the level of air pollution...

This was discussed during a meeting with experts from the Association of Practicing Environmentalists...

According to Kazhydromet, every year the ferroalloy plant of TNC Kazchrome JSC discharges about 20,000 tons of pollutants into the atmosphere. The chief specialist of the environmental department for the Aktobe region, Abduali Makambetov, says that such volumes of pollution are associated with outdated treatment systems at the plant...

The chief ecologist of TNC Kazchrome JSC, Svetlana Mashchenko, said that the enterprise will soon reduce emissions by 30% through the introduction of “green” technologies in the workshops...

Chairman of the Association of Practicing Ecologists, environmental expert Laura Malikova noted that this year, according to the new environmental code, enterprises must install automatic emission monitoring systems...

Next, environmentalists moved on to discuss the situation with the Aktobe chromium compounds plant. According to Kazhydromet, gas stations account for about 1,200 tons of emissions into the atmosphere annually. Experts from the association of practicing ecologists believe that the plant directly affects the health of Aktobe residents, causing cancer...

Environmentalists also asked how factories participate in greening the city. Thus, AZF plans to plant 100 thousand seedlings by 2025...