Waste
Audits and the 3Rs Hierarchy
Companies need to periodically re-evaluate their waste management
and recycling practices as changes occur in the waste management
industry. The practice of conducting regularly scheduled waste
audits began in 1975 but it has only been in the last five
years that the practice has been conducted extensively throughout
North America and Europe.
In the early 90's, legislation and goverment reduction targets
were introduced throughout the United States and Canada to
address growing concerns regarding available landfill space.
In response to these initiatives, Industry and Institutions
began conducting regular waste audits to identify opportunities
to reduce waste output from their facilities and to maximize
recycling and reuse programs. From these practices, it was
recognized that organizations needed to formulate policies
and environmental management systems designed to account for
the way a facility or a corporation deals with issues relating
to environmental performance.
In the late 1990's, the International Standards Organization
(ISO) developed and released its ISO 14000 - Environmental
Management System (EMS). In many ways similar to ISO 9000,
ISO 14000 is a set group of tasks, responsibilities and monitoring
systems for registered members to adhere to in order to provide
assurance to its stakeholders and customers that it maintains
and updates an environmental management system to meet or
surpass regulatory compliance requirements and other environmental
issues. An EMS should also contain regularly scheduled waste
assessments for both hazardous and non-hazardous solid and
liquid waste streams.
Immacutec's
Waste Asssessment Program
Immacutec has developed a waste assessment program that balances
a company's waste reduction efforts and waste management budget
against changing trends in the existing and developing material
recovery industry in North America. In short, Immacutec works
with its clients to improve their waste reduction performance
in a cost-beneficial and environmentally sound manner. Immacutec
waste assessments examine all factors impacting waste generation.
A detailed and innovative Waste Assessment Program that
is properly designed to address a specific facility's waste
generation trends will result in greater waste reduction and
significant cost savings. We guarantee that our Waste Assessment
Program will remove constraints imposed by a facility's waste
management budget and allow for more extensive analyses of
other waste and cost reduction programs. How does Immacutec's
Waste Assessment Programs differ from other companies that
conduct waste audits? We employ innovative and exhaustive
assessment planning, co-ordination and sampling techniques.
Project managers have a minimum of 12 years environmental
compliance experience. Each projects is individually evaluated
and conducted according to a facility's goals, its corporate
policies and international standards. (i.e. ISO 14000) A company's
waste minimization and recovery performance can be benchmarked
against other companies.
We develop systems to facilitate communication within organizations
on issues relating to waste management programs, reduction
achievements, costing and service providers. We keep our clients
up-to-date with any changes to existing and developing end-markets
for recyclable and reusable materials.
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