Definition of an environmental explanation

Environmental explanations are written by private or public bodies (producing or serve-carrying out enterprises, municipalities etc.) for the public and written in scarce, understandable form. They represent the environmental management system of an enterprise outward and reveal characteristic numbers and environmental goals. The environmental explanation contains an evaluation of all important environmental questions in connection with the activity at the described location.

Emergence of environmental explanations

Environmental explanations are part of the environmental audit system fixed in the (EMAS regulation). They are provided in connection with the results of such an audit and provided to form the interface of this audit system with public for everyone the location involved in the system of an enterprise or a public body after the first environmental check and after each following audit of operating results or after each audit of operating results cycle an environmental explanation.

Contents of an environmental explanation

An environmental explanation is provided according to a pattern described in the Form and range of such an explanation can vary thereby strongly. Each environmental explanation contains however certain basic elements. These cover in particular:

1. Description of the activities of the enterprise at the location concerned;
2. Evaluation of all important environmental questions in connection with the activities concerned;
3. Environmental balance, that means summary of the number data concerning pollutant emissions, waste arising, raw material, energy and water consumption and other important environmentalrelevant aspects;
4. Other factors, which concern operational environmental protection;
5. Representation of the environmental policy, the environmental program and the environmental management system of the enterprise for the location concerned;
6. Date for the collecting main of the next environmental explanation;
7. Name of the certified environmental consultant.

Use of environmental explanations for an enterprise

Environmental explanations offer the possibility to a private or public organization pollution free to positively and present itself. They serve to make the efforts an organization around environmental protection transparency for their clientele and positively stand out against the competitors.

Practical example for an environmental explanation

A practical example of an environmental explanation is the environmental explanation of the office for town drainage of the city Cologne. In their shown like this organization around environmental protection strives. Here some examples of it:

"• Effective process engineering after the newest state of the art makes a small dirt freight in the plant discharge for the waste water treatment unit possible. Thereby waste water purification can be converted on high level at competitive prices. At the same time the load of waters is kept small.

"• The sewage sludge resulting in the plant can lie by its good quality with pollutant values clearly underneath the limit values agriculturally use and is thus meaningfully used.

"• By the production of sewer gas high-energy with sewage sludge 50% of requirements of electric current of the plants and 100% of the heat requirement can be covered.

"• Large parts of the internally not used organic arrears are used thermally for the energy production, while the mineral arrears from the detritus chambers of the plants are used e.g. to the canal construction.

"• The smelling nuisance by the plants becomes by constant monitoring and, if necessary, by the employment of smell-restraining additives to a minimum reduces.

This are only some examples of it like the facts published in an environmental explanation the image of an enterprise to positively affect can and the customer one improve at the same time view of the function of an organization to make possible.

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