Guidance for Aggressive Goals (Objectives/Targets)
In the application, applicants will be asked to list those
goals it feels show the aggressiveness in which the site is
addressing its environmental issues.
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Goals not
listed will not be considered in assessing the
aggressiveness of the site’s efforts therefore, it is in
the site’s best interest to list as many of the current
goals in place.
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These goals
must include pollution prevention and/or process
efficiency improvement activities, which have had a major
impact in progress toward the goals and demonstrate a
commitment to go beyond compliance. Pollution prevention
projects include those activities that result in the
reduction, reuse or recycling of a raw material,
byproduct or waste. The site should be prepared to show
what type of impact the past and/or present pollution
prevention and/or process efficiency improvement
activities have had in achieving the progress to date. It
is important that progress toward goals has not been
solely achieved by production changes not associated with
environmental efforts.
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Goals should
demonstrate annual improvements to performance, be
appropriate to the nature, scale and environmental impact
of the site and result in reductions of a site’s
environmental impact.
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These goals
must be included in the framework of the EMS (i.e.,
approved by top management, communicated to appropriate
employees, etc.).
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The
aggressiveness of these environmental goals can be shown
through both the site-specific targeted reduction in
environmental impact, the techniques and technologies
required to achieve goal, past accomplishments in
reductions as well as the breadth of environmental issues
addressed in the goals listed (i.e., the number of
significant aspects and impacts addressed and/or other
environmental concerns).
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