Tips Checklist for Pollution / Harmful Chemicals Emissions during Production Processes

Introduction
Use the following tips as suggestions for biodiversity preserving methods:
C 7–2–1 Checking and minimizing general pollution and harmful chemical emissions
Determine your pollution emissions. Be sure to install and set up effective measuring instruments to collect data on the pollution coming from all aspects of your production processes. Check the measuring instruments regularly.

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Analyse your emissions to find out the amount and composition of the pollution. Find out about ways of reducing your emissions, if necessary, with the help of external consultants.

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For your production processes, invest in facilities and machines that are as efficient and low-pollution as possible. (See also Detailed Checklist 4-5 and Detailed Checklist 4-6). Be sure to regularly maintain your equipment.

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Use a filter system to reduce the concentration of pollution. Make sure you dispose of the filter in an appropriate manner.

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Set goals for pollution reduction that go above and beyond the minimum legal requirements.

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Introduce as early and as much as possible preventative measures (e.g. sealing off and rapid disposal of environmentally damaging substances) to avoid dangerous waste.

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C 7–2–2 Checking, Reducing Filtering and Recycling Waste Water
Find out where and how much harmful material is in the waste water. Check to see if it is possible to reduce such contaminants from the waste water.

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Check to see how contaminated waste water can be disposed of or treated in the most environmentally-friendly way.

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Try to avoid disposing waste water into water ways and make an effort to continually reduce the amount annually. This is especially poignant with regards to micro-organism contaminated waste water. Such sewage can introduce unwanted alien species into new fresh water habitats such as rivers and streams.

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Avoid draining warm coolant water back into bodies of water. This can lead to temperature changes that have great impacts on the oxygen levels in such areas.

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Check on the possibility of using an internal and integrated waste water treatment system.

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When using an integrated waste water treatment system, it is preferable to maintain control over its operation. For this you should appoint / hire personnel, whose sole responsibility is to maintain the facility.

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C 7–2–3 Reduction of energy-caused Pollution through Energy Efficient Production Processes
Continually optimize your processes and facilities that require electricity. Regularly check machine part insulation that is used for the production process (e.g. cold and hot water pipes).

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Use the possibility to capture and re-use heat for other internal processes and to use energy in the most efficient way.

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Helpful Links and Organisations for Detailed Checklist C 7

 www.bestellen.bayern.de

The Bayerische Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Gesundheit (Bavarian Ministry for the Environment and Health) offers a variety of publications about environment-related topics for businesses on its website. You will also be able to find the Bavarian Environment Agency's "Handbook on efficient energy use in industrial and manufacturing settings - climate protection - costs reduction". The manual breaks down the material into the most important fields of application for energy and the most important approaches for efficient and economical energy consumption. (In German only)

www.cleaner-production.de

The German Federal Environment Agency's multilingual website of Cleaner Production Germany (in German, English and Turkish) offers a number of project descriptions, practical examples and general information on eco-technology and eco-services in many different sectors, branches and technology fields. Additionally you will find a list of contact links to consulting agencies, research groups, international cooperations and various groups and government agencies.

http://eippcb.jrc.es

European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau (EIPPCB) was established to facilitate information exchanges on the “Best Available Techniques” (BAT) for a number of production industries.

www.euwas.org

The European Waste Sector Assistant (EUWAS) is a portal for waste-management relevant information and European environmental standards. It offers aid in the topics of waste and waste disposal, as well as comprehensive information about laws and directives together with strategies and programmes pertaining to waste management.

www.financingcp.org

UNEP's "Financing Cleaner Production" Initiative offers users information on current projects, topic papers, and materials for actors from different levels.

www.umweltbundesamt.de

The German Federal Environment Agency offers quite a bit of information pertaining to environmental management systems, sustainable production and waste management.
The German Federal Environment Agency and the "Eco-Institute" work together with ProBas (Prozessorientierte Basisdaten für Umweltmanagementsysteme) to provide the public with access to basic data on environmental management. ProBas (www.probas.umweltbundesamt.de) [in German only] offers a library of information on life cycle data for products and services. 
You will also find quite a bit of information on waste management and waste management methods.  You will find many tips on waste treatment and disposal.  They even offer advice on disposing hazardous material.
The Federal Environment Agency also offers information on sustainable production, with tips on production processes for enterprises in many sectors and sector-specific links, publications and legal frameworks.

www.qub-info.de

The "Quality Network for environmentally conscious Businesses" (Qualitätsverbund umweltbewusster Betriebe – QuB) is an integrated and modular certification system for small businesses and in the trades, industry and commerce. They cover basic and branch-specific functional requirements for quality and environmental management systems. They work with businesses and based upon size, they develop a specific program.  This does not however meet the DIN EN ISO 9001, DIN EN ISO 14001 or EMAS standards. It does nevertheless enable small businesses, unable to meet the above-listed standards, to develop and implement an integrated quality and environmental management system that is certified by a central network. (in German only)

www.umweltschutz-bw.de

The Ministry for the Environment in Baden-Württemberg developed an information platform called the "Industrial Environmental Protection in Baden-Württemberg." It offers information on corporate environmental protection for many sectors, as well as a variety of tips on tools and possibilities that can be used in many different production methods together with cross-sectoral information on dealing with hazardous material.

www.unep.fr/scp

The UNEP's “Cleaner Consumption and Production” from the “Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics”  offers comprehensive information on sustainable production management and sector specific information sheets and working materials.

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