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The objective of this study is to know the perception of varied experienced project man­agement professionals of India to measurement-based and valuation-based methods for inclusion in the imaginary environment management knowledge area of PMBOK. Results attained through SPSS using chi-square test of association conclude that there is a significant relationship between experience and choosing the right method. The current study suggests that lifecycle analysis and ecosystem service valuation should be included in the environment management knowledge area of PMBOK.

Workers of oil and gas extraction industries are exposed to multiple safety hazards, resulting in high fatality rates. Texas has the highest employment and fatality of oil and gas industries. Current regulations that apply to the industries in Texas require no safety management system (SMS) and inadequately address the safety hazards associated with drilling and servicing operations. The objective of the study is to develop a SMS to improve safety performances of Texas drilling and servicing operations. First, current SMSs in the United States, i.e., Process Safety Management (PSM), and Safety and Environment Management Systems (SEMS) were studied to determine if they can be directly extended. According to analysis of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) incident data, development of a new SMS is a better solution rather than extension of the two SMSs. A new SMS has been proposed by identifying and categorizing causal factors of incidents. The SMS has been developed to integrate both process and personnel safety and was designed right for Texas drilling and servicing operations. Industries can use the management system as a framework to establish their safety programs.

Polish international obligations, in particular the European Union and European Commission directives, pose a real challenge for Poland to radically reduce emissions of atmospheric pollutions and significantly increase the usage of energy coming from renewable sources in the overall energy balance of the country. These goals seem to be difficult to achieve, nevertheless the development and implementation of innovative concepts is always a step forward. Nowadays the renewable energy sources seem to be the panacea for the problems of pollutions and energy saving. Many inventors and scientists work on concept of smart grid technology. The basic concept of this technology is producing energy directly in the cities. It seems to be a good idea but often in urban areas there is no place for new installations or cost of land is the barrier. Therefore to produce and manage energy directly in the cities, we have to take into account many aspects such as cost of land, location, available renewable energy sources, number of inhabitants, electrical network, terrain obstacles, and local plans. Here is the good place to use geographic information system technology which can help us to analyze all these issues and combine spatial, satellite, and statistical data to create one coherent concept of managing various sources of energy in the cities. The aim of this study is to consider opportunities of using geographic information systems in supporting process of energy management in the cities. It was taken into account many important elements: solar conditions, impact of cloudiness on value of solar radiation, spatial data, buildings and electrical network, obstacles, and number of inhabitants. It is all for identify the advantages and disadvantages of geographic information system in the analysis of solar energy potential in the city.

E waste production in great amounts and its problems, which challenge the field of waste and environment management stem from the increase in the production of electronic appliances, diversity seeking consumers and perishable products. The disposal of e waste into the environment is hazardous as they contain chemicals. The conventional methods of disposing these e wastes are irrelevant and have an adverse effect on the environmental conditions which is threat to life. Gold is one of the precious metals that can be extracted from the e waste. The present work aim to extract gold from e waste by aqua regia solution based hydro metallurgy method which includes a sequence of process that starts from the treatment of the e waste in HCL solution and ends up with the use of fire assaying technology to get the piece of gold. The outcome of the project successful with 0.05395gm of 23.76 karat and 99.01 % purity of gold extracted. X ray method is used to check the purity and karat of the gold.

The article presents the concept of the environmental management system. Moreover, organization frames of the undertaking related to eco-transport of waste were determined. Elements of the environmental management were characterized including the environmental aspect. They were subjected to interpretation in terms of reduction of the impact on the environment. In the context of constant improvement, the attention was paid to the influence of the analysed organization of its environmental activity. The objective of the paper is the analysis of assumptions which follow from the ISO 14001 standard including arrangement of the eco-transport of waste.

The performance evaluation of health, safety and environment management system (HSE-MS) is considered to be an effective way to eliminate out dated measures and help managers adopt proper rectification measures. The objective of this paper is to design a weight distribution model for HSE-MS performance evaluation, the importance of which stems from the current lack of integrated approaches for interpreting and ranking HSE-MS performance evaluation elements. Initially, Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) is adopted to illustrate the direct and indirect effects of HSE-MS elements on system performance indicators, and the results of FCM are used to develop leading factors helpful for decision making in an intensive management system. Then, the weight distribution from FCM is amended by Relative Degree Analysis (RDA), the aim of which is to combine the advantages of quantitative and qualitative knowledge-driven methods. Finally, the level of HSE-MS performance is obtained and analyzed. The whole performance evaluation framework highlights the potential correlations of evaluation elements as well as expert opinions, which will improve the reasonability of the HSE-MS performance evaluation.

The discharge of industrial effluents into the environment poses a threat to human health and is of environmental concern to both plants and animals. Over the last several years there has been a great deal of pollution caused by sewerage treatment works and industrial plants discharging effluents into the environment. This has been caused to a large extent by rapid population increase in the cities and towns, which has led to a strain on the plants' capacities. The industrial effluents from selected industries in Nairobi's Industrial area, Kenya were analyzed to determine the physico-chemical properties which were then compared to the guidelines of the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA). The effluents were collected from four different industrial sites namely General Plastics Industries Ltd., Bhachu Industries Ltd., Chloride Industries and Sameer Africa. pH, color, temperature, chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), total dissolved solids (TDS) and oil and grease were analyzed using standard analytical methods. The results in range form for the four sites were as follows: pH 7.4-8.7; colour 26-44 Hazen units; temperature 20.5-27.7℃; COD 22.22-96.30 mg/L; TSS 25.00-26.37 mg/L; TDS 1080.7-1225.3 mg/L; Oil and Grease 5.71-12.52 mg/L. pH, colour, and oil and grease for effluent outside Sameer Industries were above NEMA guideline values for discharge into the environment. General Plastic Industries had colour, total dissolved solids and oil and grease all above NEMA guideline values. Colour, total dissolved solids and chemical oxygen demand outside Bhachu Industries were also higher. At Chloride Industries only colour was above the guideline value. There is therefore need to use appropriate treatment methods to lower these values.

There is an increasing growth of customers and regulators requesting enterprises to adopt the Environmental Management Practices (EMP) over the last 15 years and because of this, researchers and practitioners are becoming more interested in this area of study. This paper proposed an integrated model that combines the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Technology-Organization-Environment Model (TOE), two theories that are most often used in environment and innovation studies. In this paper, a model is created to show the relationship between TOE model, TPB theory and EMP implementation. With 205 valid questionnaires from the Federation of Malaysian Freight Forwarders (FMFF), the author tested the model on SPSS and AMOS. It was found that the environmental factor was the most influential factor affecting the adoption of EMP followed by organizational and technological factors. The entire TOE dimension and TPB theory greatly determines the company's adaptation of EMP. Finally, this study presents some suggestions to make EMP adaptation easier.

Increase of national family income improved demand of high-quality and year-round horticultural products including chrysanthemum. To meet these demand, farmers have introduced protected facilities, such as greenhouses, of which environmental conditions could be monitored and controlled. Environment management up to three weeks after transplanting is critical for chrysanthemum quality. Artificial lighting and light-blocking screen are especially important for long-day (day period > 13 hours) and short-day (night period > 13 hours) treatments. In this study, a web-camera was installed, and the image was obtained and transmitted to mobile phones to monitor the status of 3-wavelength(RGB) lighting environments. RGB pixel values were used to determine malfunctioning of the lighting lamps, and leaking out and incoming illumination status during short-day and long-day treatment periods. Normal lighting lamps provided RGB pixel values of 240～255. During long-day treatment period, G pixel values were useful to detect abnormal lighting conditions (e.g., leaking). During short-day treatment period, R pixel values were useful to determine incoming light (e.g., sun-light). Results of this study would provide useful information for remote monitoring of light conditions for protected chrysanthemum production under artificial lights.

Raising concern over health, safety and environmental issues in industries in recent years, has resulted in developing integrated Health Safety and Environment Management System (HSEMS) in many organizations including Iranian petroleum and gas related companies. Yet, there was no study on the level of observation and implementation of these guidelines in these industries; therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the HSE management system in contracting companies of one of the petro-chemistry industries in Iran. This cross sectional study was conducted among 14 contracting companies and 483 randomly selected workers during 2013. Data collection tool included two forms, first form was related to HSEMS and the second was related to HSE related activities or indicators by workers. This study showed that HSEMS was established well, which is a reflection of the efficient regulatory monitoring of parent company; however, it was not sufficient for preventing injuries and ensuring health and safety of workers.

In global industrial era, more than 70% industrial growth especially in Java will centrally around urban region. This matter can increase the environmental pollution as long as the progress of industry and technology development. Central and regional governments have continued to cope with the environmental pollution problem, although many environmental cases difficult to be resolved. This matter caused by the limited ability of observation technology and monitoring which conducted by the relevant institution and also because of the limited existing fund which allocated for the environment management. To increase the ability of environmental quality observation and monitoring technology in this time, we need the role of information and computation technology which can be used to observe and monitor online the source of pollution that resulting the environmental damages. To support this article we used the data of the case of information technology usage by the environmental institution in Japan. Katakunci : Online monitoring, pengelolaan Llngkungan perairan, teknologi Informasi dan komputasi, sensor kualitas air.

As the importance of environment management in construction sites has increased, there has been a tendency of reinforcing related laws and regulations. It is critical to understand and use environmental management related laws and regulations in order to conduct efficient and law-keeping environment management. However, due to the complexity and the volume of the information, difficulties arise in construction fields as to timely using such information. In order to improve this situation, it is necessary to develop and use an IT system by which the information of the environment management laws and regulations can be provided, and structuring such information is a first step. The objective of this paper is to structure tasks and the information of laws and regulations in environment management during construction stage by analyzing existing research and practice manuals.

This article takes one of the mine in Caidian as an example, it analyzes the mine’s environmental geological problems and hazards, brings out the measures of recovery and management with the development and utilization, summarizes the environmental benefits of the management project. The project is a demonstration of the mine geological environment management in Wuhan. What’s more, it gives reference to similar mines’ geological environment protection and recovery management.

To cover the main contributions and developments in solar thermal collectors through focusing on materials, heat transfer characteristics and manufacturing challenges. A range of published papers and internet research including research work on various solar thermal collectors (flat plate, evacuated tubes, and heat pipe tube) were used. Evaluation of solar collectors performance is critiqued to aid solar technologies make the transition into a specific dominant solar collector. The sources are sorted into sections: finding an academic job, general advice, teaching, research and publishing, tenure and organizations. Provides information about types of solar thermal collectors, indicating what can be added by using evacuated tube collectors instead of flat plate collectors and what can be added by using heat pipe collectors instead of evacuated tubes. Focusing only on three types of solar thermal collectors (flat plate, evacuated tubes, and heat pipe tube). Useful source of information for consultancy and impartial advice for graduate students planning to do research in solar thermal technologies. This paper fulfils identified information about materials and heat transfer properties of materials and manufacturing challenges of these three solar thermal collectors. Describes some changes made to improve the environment which have had unforeseen and adverse effects on safety and the reasons why we need more case histories. Also discusses the reasons why there are no permanent solutions to safety problems and the reasons why senior managers should become more involved in safety problems.

Bor is otherwise a typical mining town, founded by the mine. Continued economic activity in the dominant area of extractive industry, related to the copper ore mining and processing, then for metallurgy and complementary industrial activities, what is of great importance for the town and the municipality. The northern part of the Timok magmatic complex and the Bor metallogenic zone, or the Bor mining region, covers the area in which the most significant ore fields are Bor, Veliki Krivelj Cerovo, Majdanpek, Blagojev Kamen and others. The largest technogenic formations were separated in the immediate vicinity of the Bor and Krivelj mine, and they are presented by formations originated by exploitation of mineral copper deposits (overburden) and mineral processing (flotation tailing dumps) in the immediate vicinity of Bor. Designed exploration works in the area of environmental inactive mining field were aimed to prepare the conditions for environment management, remediation of tailing dumps and landfills for disposal of mining waste in the Bor mining areas as well as the rehabilitation of ecological problems in the ore region of Bor. Exploration works included the study of the field: for disposal the tailings from Veliki Krivelj area of the Old Bor Tailing Dump (East), Saraka overburden dump, south-eastern overburden dump and RTH.

Sustainability on campus has become an increasingly important issue. In this paper, an integrated building energy and environment management system (BEEMS) on campus is proposed based on the campus network. The system includes two components: energy monitoring and environment monitoring. The system employs local network on campus and uses ZigBee technology to gather energy or environmental data from anywhere on campus. This system can supply rich analysis and report functions to monitor both the energy consumption and environmental parameters, which can ultimately improve the energy automation management level of the campus and help create a sustainable, healthy campus environment.

Evaluation system can encourage and guide entrepreneurs, and impel them to perform well in environment management. An evaluation method based on advantage structure is established. It is used to analyze entrepreneur environment management behavior in China. Entrepreneur environment management behavior evaluation index system is constructed based on empirical research. Evaluation method of entrepreneurs is put forward, from the point of objective programming-theory to alert entrepreneurs concerned to think much of it, which means to take minimized objective function as comprehensive evaluation result and identify disadvantage structure pattern. Application research shows that overall behavior of Chinese entrepreneurs environmental management are good, specially, environment strategic behavior are best, environmental management behavior are second, cultural behavior ranks last. Application results show the efficiency and feasibility of this method.

As a tool of environmental policy, many countries in a world attach importance to voluntary agreement increasingly. The paper summarized that Voluntary Environment Agreements (VEAs) was put into practice in textile printing and dyeing industry of Jingzhou, put forward a frame of the VEAs and its details which are implemented in the city, investigated and analyzed the concrete measures that were adopted by a part of the textile and dyeing enterprises in performing VEAs, and the preliminary effects in energy-saving and emission-reduction engendered by the measures. The practices indicated that textile and dyeing enterprises adopting VEAs is beneficial to enhance their productivity and management, and to decrease their energy consumption and the amount of sewage. To encourage the enterprises adopting VEAs, the government should support them in relevant policy and financing, solve their capital deficit and the increased cost due to the advanced environment management.

For marine pollution prevention, Korea Coast Guard has enforced the self-check system on excellent workplace of marine facilities and ships since 2007 as part of the government policy for deregulation of administrative inspection. The self-check system had much effect amid interest from the workplaces and with their participation and cooperation. But the system has become stagnant because KCG has missed the proper timing to reflect the social and environmental change, marine workers` consciousness changes and the transformation of its relevant inner organization in the operation of the system for several years. To accommodate the changes of internal and external environments, this study surveyed 332 workers of ships and marine facilities through questionnaire about the self-check system for marine pollution prevention, reflected on the system, and focused on how to improve the existing system effectively. To increase the effect of self-check system, the enhancement of public relations efforts and improvements in marine pollution control system for ships of 5 gross tons and above are necessary. In addition, for relieving the burdens of business activity and visit inspection by KCG on excellent workplaces of ships and marine facilities, Marine Environment Management Act is needed to be amended so that the self-check system can be reflected in its amendment.

Monitoring of PM2.5 is the emphasis of atmospheric environment management, and the first thing to do is the choice of monitoring sites. In this paper, we took Beijing as an example for its more serious PM2.5 pollution. Priority analysis on monitoring sites of PM2.5 was proceeded with the algorithm TOPSIS, and the 30 basic monitoring points was optimized into 11 effective and representative monitoring points. The model been used is simple, scientific and practical and there is a great sense of promotion. Keywords: PM2.5, monitoring sites, Priority Analysis, TOPSIS algorithm.

Based on a large number of mine geological environment treatment project experience and theoretical results, the basic principles of mine geological environment management were generalized, they are overall planning, implementation step by step; adjust measures to local conditions, assisting nature; ecological priority, comprehensive treatment; ensuring safety, doing according to its abilities; minimum intervention, landscape harmonious; feasibility in technology, rationality in economy; dynamic design, timely adjust. These principles will help to reasonably determine the treatment targets, and for the right design scheme.

In this study, we put forward multilayer behavior evaluation indicator system and dynamic multistage evaluation method based on individual advantage. From the perspective of best to each evaluated entrepreneur to determine each object's evaluation indicator weight vector that reflects advantages and disadvantages, one stage comprehensive evaluation method is put forward. Each stage weight is driven from individual comprehensive value with the thought of best to each entrepreneur, so to rank all the objects on multistage. It is helpful to encourage entrepreneur bearing environment society responsibility and sustainable development. Through calculation example, feasibility and effectiveness of the method is proved.

This paper explores the mechanism between supply chain and marine environment, describes the concepts and elements of GSCM, and discusses the prospects of implementation of GSCM, conclude that GSCM would be a good practice for Chinese enterprises to improve both their economic and environmental performance, it would play an important role in marine environment management, prospectively it would be a possible way to solve the Bohai sea environmental problem in the context of land-sea overall strategy.

The necessity to solve nature conservation problems of Kuzbass mining industry demands from postgraduate education institutions to train highly qualified specialists in ecology and environment management. As 21st century education is competence-based one, the article clarifies the concept of competence in education, focuses on key competences, namely foreign language competence and its relevance for specialists in ecology and environment management. Foreign language competence is acquired through the course of “Foreign Language” discipline which covers the following aspects: academic reading, academic writing and public speaking. The article also describes the experience of organizing students' individual work taking into account their motivation and specific conditions of the discipline as well. Thus, both the content of the discipline and the approach to organize students' learning contribute to mastering foreign language competence of ecology and environment managers as inherent condition of their professional efficiency for solving ecological problems of mining industry in Kuzbass region.

This paper summarized the meaning and characteristics of the environment management index system by probing into the research about the present environment management and related fields, and put forward the evaluation environment management index system of the iron and steel industry, and finally proposed the method of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation used to evaluate index system of the environment management.

The Keshava Deva Malaviya Institute of Petroleum Exploration, a premier R&D Institute of ONGC was set up in 1962 to provide geo-scientific back up to the exploratory efforts of India’s National Oil Company, ONGC. The institute was rechristened as Keshava Deva Malaviya Institute of Petroleum Exploration (KDMIPE) from the existing Research and Training Institute (R&TI), on 19th December 1981 in memory of founding father of Indian Petroleum industry – Late Keshava Deva Malaviya. Through its sheer competence, the Institute earned its reputation as being the mother R&D institute of ONGC. With enhancement of exploration and development activities and new discoveries, especially Mumbai High, eight additional R&D institutes were later carved out of KDMIPE between 1978-2006 to cater to their respective needs in the fields of Reservoir (Institute of Reservoir Studies, IRS), Drilling (Institute of Drilling Technology, IDT), Production & Ocean Engineering (Institute of Oil & Gas Production Technology, IOGPT & Institute of Engineering and Ocean Technology, IEOT), Geo data processing and interpretation (GeoData Processing and Interpretation Centre, GEOPIC), Bio-Engineering (Institute of Biotechnology and Geotectonic Studies, INBIGS), Safety (Institute of Petroleum Safety, Health and Environment Management, IPSHEM) and well logging (Centre for Excellence in Well Logging Technology, CEWells).

POSCO is the world's third-largest steelmaker which had an output of 35.4 million tones of crude steel in 2010. It currently operates two integrated steel mills in South Korea and operates a joint venture with U.S. Steel in California. As POSCO’s business expanded to overseas markets, the environmental management at the POSCO family level grows more important. Its current environmental management system incorporates environmental vision, policy, organizations and accounting system. In order to fulfill corporate responsibilities for the society and environment, POSCO establishes environmental objectives each year and put them into practice. In this paper, the POSCO environmental management methods and environment management performance were summarized. The treatment methods and recycling techniques of different metallurgical waste and resources (such as wastewater, dust, slag and sludge) were reviewed in details. At last, the author put forward some expectations for the environmental development and management of the Chinese iron and steel companies.

In this study, a two-stage interval-stochastic mixed integer programming method was developed for supporting long-term planning of solid waste management in the city of Beijing, China. The developed method reflects uncertainties expressed as probability density functions and intervals, as well as offers a linkage between predefined environmental policies and associated economic implication. The method has advantages in tackling dynamic, interactive, and uncertain characteristics of solid waste management system in the city, and addressing issues regarding waste diversion and landfill prolongation. Reasonable solutions were generated for waste flow allocation and system capacity expansion. Data envelopment analysis was then utilized for analyzing these solutions under different policy scenarios. Obtained results can provide useful information and decision-support for the city's solid waste management planning. Results are valuable for adjustment of the existing waste management practice and identi...

The U.S. national environmental performance partnership system (NEPP) includes national environmental policy planning system, performance partnership agreement (PPA) and performance partnership grant (PPG) three elements. National environmental planning policy establishes the highest level of environmental plans and objectives meanwhile monitor and evaluate the performances. PPA and PPG implement the plan to meet the goals. With the status of environmental management in China, the U.S. NEPP system can inspires our government mainly in four aspects: to bring all levels of governments into play, to create specific targeted environmental protection activities, to found a sound monitoring and evaluation system and to form the test data Scientifically

Quality and effectiveness are vital factors in health, safety and environment management systems. In order to move towards the goal of increasing quality, to achieve best results, to reach the continuous improvement of system services and productions, and also to make the internal and external customers satisfied, it is necessary to consider the system performance measurement. This study was aimed to represent Health, Safety and Environment Excellence Instrument to measure the performance of a wide range of health, safety and environment management systems. The development of the proposed tool overall structure, its principles, and its test results in three different contractors of MAPNA Group are presented in this article. Test results in three organizations revealed that, on the whole, the instrument has the ability to measure the performance and efficiency of health, safety and environment management systems in a wide range of systems.

Environment management is of great consequence in the wheat straw pulping workshop. It contributes to the health of workers and prolongs the service life of mechanical and electric equipment. In this paper, reasons for waste liquor, waste steam, corrosive gas, foam were analyzed. Some special solutions were put forward.

In this paper, we propose an efficient indoor environment management system which provides the environment management service in ubiquitous computing environment. It is designed to gather data from the user`s environment and keep it pleasant with respect to indoor air quality regulation. In order to offer such service Ubiquitous Computing Environment used distributed framework based on the active model for its development and support, while supporting service integration and also we used service oriented architecture. In order to verify the performance of the environment management system, components showed operation while environment management service showed the result through GUI screen.

Nanotechnologies and nanoparticles represent a promising and fast-growing field. This is principally because a nanodimensional substance can have physical and chemical properties that are different from those of the same substance with larger dimensions. However, the present knowledge is not yet sufficient for the elaboration of nanospecific regulations. Many projects with the aim of completing the necessary scientific and technical basis for the assessment of nanotechnology related risks are under way. Under these circumstances closely relationship between the industries and government bodies is necessary to build up safety standards or regulations by all stakeholders constitute an appropriate tool for the protection of human health and the environment.

Current trends in energy consumption and biofuel manufacturing are neither secure nor sustainable, because they are not provided by necessary cost effective technologies. Further reductions of cost and technological development will be needed for biofuels to be able to compete effectively without subsidy. With the debate raging about raw material of biofuel, microalgae may offer a solution to this conundrum; creating enormous reserves of biofuels and boosting feed production. In this goal Center suggest projects, which incorporate water recourse management and restoration of lakes, freshwater conservation and cleanup through cost effective biodiesel manufacturing as well as pharmaceuticals destruction through the use of microalgae Chlorella and wastewaters aimed to replace the burning technology includes also supplying biofuel profitably and developed pilot bussiness plan based on the cost effective technology through applying new innovative approaches in various stages of microalgae production. The benefits of microalgae are so overwhelming that this, combined with the prospect of the improvement in nature protection, makes it imperative for the world to devise an international response and a plan of action. Incentives will be needed for the development of industry-led platforms such as the World Microalgae Technology Platform and its international financial fund. Microalgae must be the key tool for the new design and building sustainable development and environment management.

In recent years, both academics and practitioners are paying more attention to green banking concept due to its significant influence on environment management in banking context. In Sri Lanka, banks are launching green banking initiatives in recent years. Apparently, there are lacunas in empirical studies undertaken in Sri Lankan context regarding green banking practices and how to measure the level of intensity of green banking. As the green banking has become an emerging concept, both researchers and practitioners have called for a set of reliable and valid instrument for measuring green banking concept. The objectives of this paper are to explore the green banking practices in Sri Lanka and to develop an instrument to measure the green banking concept/practices. In order to achieve the first objective, data were collected from the secondary sources, mainly from the last three years annual reports of the selected banks in Sri Lanka and content analysis was applied. Regarding second objective, an instrument was developed to measure green banking practices and tested among the 155 bank staff of selected bank branches. In connection with the first objective, this study has identified and explored 98 green banking practices among the four private sector Commercial Banks in Sri Lanka. Regarding the second objective, a 16 items instrument with four key dimensions were developed to measure green banking. It is a reliable and valid instrument in measuring green banking practices from the perspective of Sri Lanka.

Environmental Performance Evaluation (EPE) is an useful method to assess the effectiveness of critical environmental management of an organization. In this paper the basic concept of EPE and its applicability in the context of ceramic industries has been discussed.

From late 2012 until mid-2014 an extensive seismic exploration programme was carried out offshore Uruguay, comprising the operation of 7 seismic vessels together with their supply and chase vessels, sometimes operating simultaneously, for the acquisition of approximately 38,500 Km2 of 3D seismic and 7,500 Km of 2D seismic. It is part of an early stage of exploration of the frontier basins of Uruguay, committed by international oil companies under production sharing agreements with the national oil company of Uruguay (ANCAP), or multi-client contracts signed between ANCAP and international geophysical companies. ANCAP's role was to supervise and facilitate the operations, and in particular, to set the rules for developing safe and sustainable operations in coordination with other national authorities. This paper aims to review and evaluate the technologies, procedures and practices for health, safety and environmental management, put in force during the programme. The exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Uruguay comprises around 142,000 Km2, from shelf shallow waters of the Rio de la Plata, to deep waters of the southern Atlantic where most of the seismic programme was concentrated. Although there is a fair general understanding of the physical, biological and anthropic media of the EEZ, data is scarce, with isolated and inhomogeneous efforts concentrated in a particular environmental media, species or locations. Most of the artisanal and industrial fisheries, and marine traffic, is developed near the coastal area of the EEZ, far from the exploration areas. Exploration of hydrocarbons is a non-traditional activity in Uruguay; therefore, apart from general legislation for the protection of marine environment and for safe and sustainable development of human activities, including international agreements for marine operations, there are no specific regulations regarding HSE for exploration operations. A thoroughly review and identification of regulations was performed in anticipation of the programme, in order to determine the requirement of supplementary or more stringent rules, in addition to those adopted by the companies on a voluntary basis. A particular focus was given into those issues of higher concern, among local stakeholders and probably worldwide, associated with offshore seismic operations: the protection of marine mammals and other marine fauna, the relation and communication with stakeholders, the effect of sound on fishes and fisheries, and the social impact in terms of the involvement of local providers and human resources in the programme. The results of this review are presented as standard safety and environmental performance indicators, including a set of lessons learned and recommendations for future offshore operations. This paper is the first assessment of HSE management and performance of exploration operations offshore Uruguay, and uses a comprehensive database from the international geophysical and oil companies involved in the seismic programme.

RFID technology is one of the forerunners of pervasive computing, and as such is expected to play an important role in many applications of daily life, especially in the form of smart labels. However, market investigations and a material analysis of a smart label shows that the use of smart labels does not considerably affect the recycling or disposal of packaging materials, if precautionary measures are taken, such as eco-design and, where necessary process modifications. Today in industrialized countries end-of-life information and communication technology (ICT) equipment is processed separately from other waste streams, given its material composition and appliance size. The waste management processes studied are municipal solid waste incineration and recycling of glass, paper, cardboard, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and aluminum.

This essay is to approach and establish one online environment management system for manufacturing enterprise, based on Browser/Server (B/S) structure, in accordance with the actual demands. The function of effluent treatment machine account management, hazardous waste management, habitat monitoring, report approval management, statistics analysis and electric management are involved in the implementation, which is in smooth operation. The research certifies that the effectual way to deal with the nature pollution for manufacturing enterprise is applying high-efficiency environment management system.

Recently, more companies are making great effort to obtain ISO 14001 approval, an internationally recognized standard for environment management and audit. As “Advanced Management Company of Water and the Environment, ” we have been grappling with the development of environmental preservation technologies for many years.Our major themes are to treat different types of wastewater according to their characteristics, to recycle wastewater, and to reduce industrial waste. For example, we have developed wastewaterreuse technologies, through a zero-discharge system, which recover wastewater as condensate; by these technologies, 90% of the wastewater can be reused. Beside these technologies, this article also reviews effective facilities and chemicals to obtain ISO 14001 approval: These include sludge reduction by organic coagulants, wastewater minimization by Pinch Technology, alternative daily cover material for landfill using reused paper, capacitive deionization and regenerative thermal oxidizer for destroying volatile organic compounds.

External verification of industry's environmental and social performance is an increasingly popular strategy for improving accountability. However, do these processes of verification ultimately add up to a more accountable company or industry? This article describes a case study of external verification in the Australian mining industry. It introduces the Australian Minerals Industry Code for Environmental Management and explores how concepts of accountability and verification have been embedded within it. The case study, a verification process commissioned by Placer Dome Asia Pacific and the research process that accompanied it, is then discussed in brief. The difference between verifying systems and verifying outcomes from those systems is explored. Finally, the article concludes with some recommendations for external verification, both of the Code and of environmental, social or sustainability performance in general.