Achieving Environmental Excellence: Integrating P2 and EMS to Increase Profits

by Avrom Bendavid-Val, Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff

Learn a step-by-step, methodical approach to maximizing the long-term profitability and sustainability of your business by merging pollution prevention (P2) techniques with an environmental management system (EMS). This book shows you how to manage both regulatory and voluntary environmental concerns, enabling your company to improve production efficiencies and product quality, reduce direct costs for waste, control near- and long-term environmental liabilities, reduce the direct and indirect costs of compliance, and anticipate future compliance challenges.

Achieving Environmental Excellence begins with overviews of EMS and P2 and with an overview of the integrated EMS/P2 framework that companies can apply to any or all of their operations. The authors then closely examine the five phases of implementing an integrated EMS/P2 program. Within these phases, the authors address the personnel issues and responsibilities, company policies, and life cycle analysis tools you need to develop the most cost-effective pollution prevention investment strategies for your facility. They also examine how the activities in each phase and the requirements of ISO 14001 relate and how your company would fulfill ISO 14001 certification requirements through an integrated EMS/P2 approach.

286 pages, Hardcover

First published February 28, 2003

About the author

Avrom Bendavid-Val worked as an expert in economic development and environmental management in America and in poor countries for 45 years. During his career he traveled and worked in many countries in Africa, Asia, East and Central Europe, and the Middle East, and published several books in his field. In 1997, while working in Poland, he decided to visit the site of the vanished town his father and grandfather came from, Trochenbrod. He was gripped by the experience, became an impassioned researcher into the 130-year history of the town, and eventually wrote THE HEAVENS ARE EMPTY: Discovering the Lost Town of Trochenbrod to share what he found with a broad audience.