SMURFIT KAPPA (5A)

 

  SMURFIT KAPPA (5A)

      
  There are 19 Smurfit Kappa factories in Spain and Portugal.

    This company manufractures paper and wavy shaped cardbord in a sustainable, safe, efficent and innovative way. They are an integrated company ranging from sustainable forest management to the production of fibre and recycled paper.

   Smurfit Kappa mainly works doing packaging, cardboard paper and forest products.
This factory is quite beneficial as it recycles paper and their solutions are natural, renewable and recyclable, but the problem is that it pollutes the air and, as a result, it harms the environment and produces not only physical disabilities, but also psychological and behavioral disorders in people.

 

There is a Smurfit Kappa factory in the outskirts of Iurreta. This factory is quite beneficial as it recycles paper and their solutions are natural, renewable and recyclable, but the problem is that it pollutes the air and, as a result, it harms the environment and produces not only physical disabilities, but also psychological and behavioral disorders in people.

The contamination attract dioxin and furan, which are the agents of contamination. These are very toxic, active, physiologically small and not easy to degrade, that's the reason why they can last years and years. There is a long list of problems that these factories can make, such as, genetic disorders, skin diseases, respiratory cancer, pneumoconiosis, bronchopulmonary infections due to the aluminum dusts or fumes or its compounds, bronchopulmonary infections due to powders of metals drives, asthma caused in the professional average by the substances not included in other sections and diseases caused by irritation of the upper airway by inhalation or ingestion of powders, liquids, gases or vapors.

These factories also damage the biodiversity because they produce air pollution and acid rain, for example.

  Now, Smurfit Kappa has created a new headquarter of renewable energy, What they want to achieve by creating this project, is the improvement of it's operative global efficiency through the support of the renewable energies, the forest's sustainable management and the respect and protection to the environment.