tailieunhanh - Handbook Of Pollution Control And Waste Minimization - Chapter 2

Vai trò của phòng chống ô nhiễm trong chất thải Quản lý / phục hồi môi trường 1 PHÒNG NGỪA Ô NHIỄM TRONG quản lý quy trình Thách thức quan trọng nhất đối với kỹ sư môi trường của bất kỳ ngành công nghiệp lớn ngày nay là làm thế nào để giữ cho các tổ chức môi trường, quản lý, và các bên liên quan ở một bên và quản lý kinh doanh và các cổ đông ở phía bên kia hài lòng đồng thời. Tuân thủ các quy định hiện hành là một vấn đề đơn giản của việc. | 2 Role of Pollution Prevention in Waste Management Environmental Restoration Harish Chandra Sharma . Department of Energy Albuquerque New Mexico 1 POLLUTION PREVENTION IN PROCESS MANAGEMENT The single most important challenge facing today s environmental engineer of any major industry is how to keep environmentalist organizations regulators and stakeholders on one side and business managers and shareholders on the other side satisfied simultaneously. Complying with existing regulations is a simple matter of incorporating a few additional process changes. Unfortunately changes of this kind are costly. In the process waste changes from one form to another. The only way out of this complex situation is through incorporation of waste minimization pollution prevention WMin P2 measures every step of the way wherever economically feasible. As per a National Association of Manufacturers survey companies that take advantage of the . Environmental Protection Agency EPA 33-50 emissions reduction program for toxic chemicals over half the companies saved money 1 . In spite of this encouraging fact resistance to incorporate waste minimization or pollution prevention at any level is very real. Many industrial houses today have placed a vice president in charge of environmental affairs. These companies have a vision and mission statement to go with the position but when it comes to changing a process or incorporating a Copyright 2002 by Marcel Dekker Inc. All Rights Reserved. significant change it just won t happen. This is true for an existing process in which waste is managed as an end-of-pipe fact under the waste management WM program and also in the case of site cleanup that is conducted under the environmental restoration ER process or under the decontamina-tion decommissioning D D process for an abandoned facility. Waste Management WM Waste management and minimization program is compliant cost effective management of the minimum waste 2 . Waste does not contribute