Impact Factors: Pollution
Every company emits pollutants into the surrounding environment. Agricultural over-fertilisation is a prime example of the danger to biological diversity from pollution. This leads to the loss of nutrient-poor systems and to the displacement of species living in these habitats. The accumulation of persistent toxic substances and toxic pollutants, caused, for example, by shipwrecks, also endangers biodiversity.
Fields of action
Fields of action in can be identified and set by analysing where a company’s activities have a either direct or indirect influence on biodiversity. The spatial relation to biological diversity is intuitively connected to the sites and facilities field of action. Corporate activities influence biodiversity in other ways though as well.
Sites and Facilities
Release of climate gases from depletion of forests and drainage of wetlands
Dust
Building shadows
Product Design
Product usage may cause emissions (for example, waste water, noise, air pollutants)
Product as waste
Personnel
Emissions caused by employee business travel
Supply chains, commodities and materials
Overfertilisation
Waste water
Best Practice Examples: Der Grüne Punkt - Duales System Deutschland - Agenda for sustainable packaging
DSD is concerned about the packaging life cycle and is cooperating with many manufacturers to develop a way to keep the packaging materials even longer in the business cycle (cradle-to-cradle). With the company’s Environmental Success Report, DSD has been able to collect information on its environmental impact, as well as gather specific indicators on the further development of packaging recycling. DSD has joined forces with selected partners from the retailing, filling and package manufacturing sectors to set up the “Sustainable Packaging Agenda” pilot project.
Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD)
Additional information about Supply chains, commodities and materials
Production and manufacturing processes
Wastewater
Emissions caused by production
Best Practice Examples: Der Grüne Punkt - Duales System Deutschland - Agenda for sustainable packaging
DSD is concerned about the packaging life cycle and is cooperating with many manufacturers to develop a way to keep the packaging materials even longer in the business cycle (cradle-to-cradle). With the company’s Environmental Success Report, DSD has been able to collect information on its environmental impact, as well as gather specific indicators on the further development of packaging recycling. DSD has joined forces with selected partners from the retailing, filling and package manufacturing sectors to set up the “Sustainable Packaging Agenda” pilot project.
Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD)
Additional information about Production and manufacturing processes
Transport and Logistics
Separation of oil
Detergent and waste water
Particulate matter
