Green Impact

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How to identify your most significant
environmental aspects and impacts
Green Impact
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• What are the quick wins with maximum impact?

How would you implement these
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Getting started

• B029 The team has identified, ranked and
  documented what it believes are its five most
  significant environmental aspects impacts. 

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What are impacts and aspects
Cause
Effect

• Environmental Aspect
• any element of an organisations activities,
  products or services, that can interact with the
  environment.

• Environmental impact
• any change to the environment, whether adverse or
  beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an
  organisations activities, products or services

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EXAMPLE - Printing agendas for meetings
Cause
Effect

• Environmental impact

Environmental Aspect
Aspect Use of printer
Impact contributes to global warming
Aspect Use of paper
Impact use of fossil fuels burden on earths
resources
Impact Deforestation
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Your turn

• Identifying your own environmental aspects
  and impacts
• Brainstorm your activities
• What environmental aspects are associated with
  these?
• What are the environmental impacts of this?
• Identify the significance of each impact
• Intensity
• Likelihood

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Themes to consider
Energy Heat lightning
Waste Recycling Reuse, recycle compost
Travel Bike schemes Liftshare
Procurement Workers rights, Fairtrade
sustainable suppliers
Wellbeing, Biodiversity Community Nature trail
bee hives
Embedding Communication Administration
Greening the curriculum charity in the wider
community
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General Considerations

• Direct or indirect
• Real or perceived
• Occur under normal operating conditions
• Occur under abnormal operating conditions
• Due to accident
• Due to incident (eg vandalism)
• Due to past (or future) activities

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Contact details

• Sustainable Behaviour Assistant
• Jane Nurse
• j.i.p.nurse_at_swansea.ac.uk
• 01792606391
• Your NUS Green Impact Project Officer
• Odette Wills
• Odette.Wills_at_nus.org.uk
• 07813921439