This site provides checklists, guides, case studies and other resources covering topics such as: Renewable energy Energy efficiency Waste and recycling Life cycle thinking Water savings It also provides information about availability of funding programs to support sustainability, for example, the Victorian Sustainability Fund. See http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/ … [Read more...]
Dept Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment (Tas)
This site has information on legislation, regulations, guides and programs such as: Environmental management Waste, recycling and industrial waste management Air and water quality See http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/ … [Read more...]
Environment Protection Authority (SA)
The Environmental Protection Authority (SA) web site provides information and links for businesses to help them reduce their impact on the environment and use their resources more efficiently. The site provides information, guidelines and legislation on topics including: Licensing requirements and online applications Air quality impact assessment Site contamination, assessment and remediation Managing spills – bunding and spill management, site contamination, Business life cycle – … [Read more...]
Qld Government environment and pollution management
A central source of information on environmental management requirements in Queensland including: Waste reduction and recycling strategy Environmental licences and permits Duty of care guidelines for cultural heritage protection Environmental impact assessment guidelines. See http://www.qld.gov.au/environment/pollution/ Business focused information is available at https://www.business.qld.gov.au/business/running/environment. … [Read more...]
National Pollutant Inventory reporting requirements (NPI)
Businesses have to report on their emissions and waste transfers if they trip the reporting thresholds which are defined for 93 substances, rates of burning waste and fuel and the rate and type of electricity usage. A series of Emission Estimation Technique (EET) manuals have been developed for each reporting industry. These outline the industry processes, various methods for estimating emissions and equations for converting different types of measurement. The full list of manuals is … [Read more...]
ISO 14000 Set:2005 Environmental Management Standards set
The ISO 14000 family of standards addresses various aspects of environmental management which aims to control and improve the environmental performance of an organisation as measured against objectives. The standards are voluntary. The family of standards includes: ISO 1400 1 :2004 Environmental Management Systems (requirements) ISO 14004:2004 Environmental Management Systems (guidelines) ISO 14050:2009 Environmental management - Vocabulary ISO 14040:2006 Environmental … [Read more...]
Lean and environment tool kits
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has developed a series of guides, tool kits and case studies that show the links between lean systems and environmental sustainability improvements. It recognises that companies that can deliver products and services with fewer environmental impacts have the potential to capture significant competitive advantage, provided that there are not sacrifices in time, quality, or cost. In many markets products with superior environmental performance … [Read more...]
ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Guidance Standard
ISO 26000 is an International Standard giving guidance on social responsibility - what it means, what issues an organisation needs to address in order to operate in a socially responsible manner, and what is best practice. It contains voluntary guidance, not requirements, and therefore is not a certification standard like ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004. http://www.iso.org/iso/social_responsibility … [Read more...]
