Environmental Protection

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Environmental Protection

• Legislation

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• Environmental Protection Act
• Pollution Prevention and Control Act
• Clean Air Act
• Radio Active Waste Act (Radioactive Waste
  Management Case)
• Controlled Waste Act
• Dangerous Substances and Preparations and
  Chemical Regulations

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Environmental Management SystemsISO 1400 family
of systems

• ISO 14001 specifies requirements
• ISO 14004 provides guidelines

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Climate Change Levy

• Describe (what it is)
• Content
• Applications (who it applies to)
• Exemptions (who it doesnt apply to)

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2012
From when it was introduced, the levy was frozen
at 0.43p/kWh on electricity, 0.15p/kWh on coal
and 0.15p/kWh on gas. In the 2006 budget it was
announced that the levy would in future rise
annually in line with inflation, starting from 1
April 2007 1. With effect from 1 April 2012 the
rates are1
Electricity 0.509p per kWh
Mains Gas 0.177p per kWh
LPG 1.137p per kg
Any other "taxable commodity" 1.387p per kg
Research climate change agreement and its
benefits
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Enhanced Capital Allowance

• The Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) scheme
  enables businesses to claim a 100 first year
  capital allowance on investments in certain
  energy saving equipment, against the taxable
  profits of the period of investment.
• Capital allowances enable businesses to write off
  the capital cost of purchasing new plant or
  machinery (e.g. boilers, motors), against their
  taxable profits.

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Types and causes of Industrial emissions

• Air/ pollution
• Noise
• Water
• Vibration
• Light

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Safe disposal of waste

• Labelling of waste materials
• Oils cutting oil, sump oil, etc
• Contaminated PPE (personal protective equipment
• Radioactive waste
• Chemical, dangerous substances, acids adhesives
• Refrigeration gases
• Workshop waste oily rags swarf,etc
• Accidental spillage

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Activity

• Research waste disposed in
• Landfill sites
• By recycling
• Biological recycling