Essays on Pollution Prevention

Environmental laws and regulations are framed to protect the air, land and water environment as well as human health from adverse impacts of industrial or commercial activities. All capital ventures are aimed towards increased production and associated profits, while the surrounding environment is taken for granted. Results of such environmental devaluations are great disasters that lead to severe capital and human loss. Four different disasters that resulted from violation of major environmental laws or led to the development of new regulations are discussed below in detail.

Love Canal

Hooker Chemical Company acquired an aborted canal project area near Niagara Falls called ...

List of hazard identified in the construction site

1) Chemicals 2) Noise pollution 3) Melanoma 4) Eye injury 5) Manual handling injuries 6) Dusts

Assess the risks that may result from the hazards

1) Chemicals The leakage of chemicals outside the workplace may lead to environmental pollution leading to contamination of water, loss of life and unproductive land. Death of workers may result due to coming into contact with hazards; this may result by experiencing difficulties in breathing and other symptoms. Destruction of property may occur due to effects of hazard chemicals e.g. explosions. When some of hazard chemicals get into contact with the skin it may ...

Abstract

Pollution prevention is a concern to many companies and everybody right now, especially after a massive global warming alarm in the 20th century, many facilities and institutions are trying to implement on issues which will bring an end or halter on matters concerning pollution. This has enabled many plants, facilities, companies and institution to try and implement the new changes in their organizations programs to enable minimization of pollution, minimization of waste production and the introduction of purchasing of recyclable materials.

Setting a pollution prevention goal for the company

Below is a list of my proposed goals which will help in tackling, halting and implementing new issues concerning pollution ...

Introduction In 1990, pollution prevention was set as a priority in the American national objectives of environmental management through the Pollution Prevention Act (Weinberg, 2006). According to EPA, pollution prevention is decreasing waste before recycling, treatment, or disposal. Public pollution prevention programs are administered by the POTW (Publicly Owned Treatment Works), the largest municipal investment dedicated to environmental quality.

POTW Administered P2 Programs

The various types of programs administered are Voluntary, Regulatory, Enforcement, and market based programs (Bishop, 2000). Enforcement programs are aimed at enforcing a strategy that will achieve full compliance with environmental laws. An example of these programs is Septic System Pollution ...

Environmental waste refers to the unwanted by- products which are released to the environment and have the potential of harming living things around the areas of production or release. Paints are mixed up with various organic solvents that have volatile compounds. Free release of those volatile compounds will have a negative impact on the existence of living things, living within the vicinity of paint companies. It is therefore important to ensure the implementation of optimal strategies garnered towards reducing the toxins produced during the manufacturing process. Key in this mandate is the need to minimize the level of solvents utilized ...

Pollution Prevention

Many of the companies and corporations operating in different parts of the world are constantly becoming environmentally conscious. This is due to the pressure being subjected by governments and other environmentalists on these corporations to reduce pollution (Hawkins, & Shaw, 2004). Each company is mandated to be environmentally friendly and for this reason, pollution prevention programs are a must for each corporation (Hawkins, & Shaw, 2004).

Environmental performance of a company is determined by the International Organization Standards, (ISO), which sets up guidelines and regulations concerning pollution (Maczulak, 2010). The corporations are classified first according to their objectives, that is whether a company is ...