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SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
INTRODUCTION
DATA AND ASSURANCE
MANAGING OUR ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT (CONTINUED)
Water management
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Sasol becomes the only private institution in South Africa
to be Green Drop certified
Fives Steps to Green Drop certification*
1
CAPACITY MANAGEMENT
2 ENVIRONMENTAL
Wastewater Risk Abatement , Effluent Quality Monitoring,
Sludge Management, Laboratory Credibility
3 FINANCIAL
Wastewater Operations Cost Determination, Energy Demand,
Operations and Maintenance Budget and Expenditure, Supply
Chain Managements of Suppliers and Service Providers
4 TECHNICAL
Waste Water Treatment Works Design Capacity, Process Audit/
Condition Assessment, Sewer Main Inspection, Asset Register,
Local Regulation
5 QUALITY COMPLIANCE
Monitoring Information, Authorisation, Effluent Quality
Compliance, Sludge Classification
MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
Sasol’s Sasolburg Operations
received an outstanding score of
Sasol has become the only private institution with a wastewater treatment system
to be Green Drop certified. This is disclosed in the DWS’s long-awaited 2022 Green
Drop Certification Programme Report, which was published on 1 April 2022.
According to the latest Green Drop
report, 995 wastewater networks and
treatment works belonging to private
and public water services institutions
were subjected to the Green Drop Audit
from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.
Of these, only 23 wastewater systems
scored a minimum of 90% when
measured against the Green Drop
standards and thus qualified for Green
Drop Certification. This is lower than the
60 wastewater systems awarded Green
Drop status in 2013.
Process Control, Maintenance, Technical/Engineering, Scientific
96%
up from 86% in 2013, making it the
only private sector company to
obtain the Green Drop certification.
“The results indicate that the vast majority of
rural municipalities struggle to score more
than 50%; only 5% of systems in Free State
and Limpopo reached this threshold in
comparison of 75% of systems in Gauteng.
This coincides with the availability of specialist
engineering and scientific skills being more
prevalent in the urban municipalities,” the
report stated. Sasol’s Sasolburg Operations
received an outstanding score of 96%, up from
86% in 2013, making it the only private sector
company to obtain the Green Drop
certification.
SO achieved an impressive 89%, coming in at second place in the Private
Sector Best Progress Category and improved from 86% in 2013.
Over the years, Sasol has pressed on with its efforts to
responsibly manage its water use particularly in water-scarce
areas, and to ensure that the quality of the catchment areas
does not deteriorate.
* Source: Green Drop and Blue Drop certification programmes - https://www.dws.gov.za/Campaigns/NationalWaterSanitationSummit/documents/Green%20Drop%20and%20Blue%20Drop%20Summit%202022%20presentation%20(Commission%206).pdf
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