Environmental Challenge of Chemical Industries in Markazi Province

Chemical as a wide range of products & row, intermediate material are in most criteria of human life. Industrial products are very important in Iran that the environmental problems of them should be attention. In addition to the advantages that the Markazi province has for establishing chemical manufactories, Main Oil industries such as Refinery & Petrochemical company of Shazand has to lead to developing and growth of chemical industries in the region. Therefore, it needs more efforts to prevention of environment. In this province, chemical factories are producing in different classes of Oil & Gasoline, Recovery, Celoloses & other types of industries. WAMCO as the first site of management of industrial & hazardous wastes of Markazi Pro. and even the country and trying to manage all wastes in future has to be continued. Other developments such as wastewater treatment plants in large scale industries and Industrial States are reduse water and soil pollution caused by activity of chemical plants. Seven other refineries are currently in operation which result of environmental efforts that have accelerated in recent years. Air pollution is one of the major problems of these industries and issues such as refinery s flare continue to cause severe air pollution so there are still many steps to be taken. But monitoring and control have led to more clean days, and decline in the number of chemical industries in the list of pollutant is evidence of this.