The chemical industry is a particularly sensitive sector that very often works with toxic, harmful and dangerous substances. This paper oers insight into the corporate socially responsible (CSR) behaviour of a specific segment of the chemical industry—the production of fluorinated ski waxes. Perfluorinated compounds, which excel in water and fat stability and repellency, are nowadays considered as harmful to human health and nature. During 2020, the basic compound, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), will be banned, and finding its replacement will be a dicult task. So far, there are no alternatives in terms of environmentally friendly compounds that can maintain the desired properties of extreme ski glide. Based on a questionnaire distributed to twenty wax producers worldwide, we have concluded that, although the attitudes of companies towards CSR certification was rather negative (87.5%), and companies had not developed or documented any CSR policy/strategy with specific goals, they found CSR activities/instruments beneficial and important. The survey highlighted the fact that companies were aware that their products are dangerous for the environment, and that environmental issues are important for all of the responders, despite them being mostly without certified systems. The size of a company had no significant eect on their attitude. Micro and small producers were involved in raising awareness of environmental policies and responsibilities to the same extent (maybe even more) as medium or large companies. We also found varying behaviours between companies involved in environmental programs and those who were not. The companies involved felt a strong attitude towards all three pillars of CSR, which are the environment, as well as social and economic aspects. Those companies not involved had a strong attitude towards their customers, but not towards their employees, suppliers or the wider community. They also had stronger feelings about the quality of their products and economic profit, but without a strong approach to the related environmental issues. The Norwegian approach and the commitment of the company Swix to CSR are two positive examples leading to a fluorine-free future.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the regional problems of the Kingdom of Sweden at the beginning of the 21st century and to confront these findings with the regional policy of the Czech Republic. In the introduction the basic issues of ...

Despite being banned, Hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCH) still pose significant human health and ecological risks due to their persistence in the environment. While various remedial methods have been investigated since the 1980s, many HCH-contaminated sites remain unresolved. A hybrid-constructed wetland system, Wetland+®, represents a promising nature-based solution (NBS) strategy for treating HCH leachate or drainage water. The system has been built and operates on a full scale at Hajek (Czechia), where several thousand tons of HCH were historically deposited. The system comprises a permeable reactive barrier with Fe(0) chips, a biosorption/biodegradation module, and an aerobic wetland with phytoremediation capabilities. Over 30 months, the system demonstrated an average HCH removal efficiency of 83%, with significantly higher removal rates observed during lower flow and higher water temperature seasons. The system released approximately 8 g and less than 1 g of HCH per day in winter and summer, respectively, compared to an average of 23 g/day in the inflow. The removal efficiency increases over time, as observed in long-term studies, due to the growth of wetland plants. Among the five most abundant HCH isomers, significantly lower efficiency was recorded for the more recalcitrant ε and β isomers. The dominant isomer detected in the system outflow was δ-HCH in winter and spring and ε-HCH in the rest of the year, compared to δ-HCH in the inflow. The Wetland+® system was easy to deploy and sustainable against conventional approaches (WWTP or no-intervention) based on the applied socio-economic survey framework.