[July 2006]

BSI Announces Environment Management Report

BSI has introduced 'Environment Management Report: Trends and Best Practice in Waste Management' which uses examples and case studies to show how effective waste management benefits business. The report gives clear and practical advice on how to identify areas of waste and how to implement simple operational procedures to reduce and control it. The authors (Yoxon, Burley and Gladding) guide the reader through the relevant legislation and provide the tools and techniques to unlock the benefits for your business, the wider economy and the environment.

Mark Yoxon has over 25 years' worldwide experience as a trainer, conference organiser and speaker, and as an author and broadcaster on environmental management, facilitation and stakeholder dialogue. He has worked with numerous organisations from small businesses and local authorities to EU policy initiatives and was a member of the Management Charter Initiative (MCI) working group which developed vocational qualifications for environmental management. He is accepted as a leader in his field.

Stephen Burley studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and has worked on several waste management research programmes with the Department of the Environment and the Environment Agency. He joined the Open University in 1993 and is involved in the teaching of environmental
engineering at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests include municipal waste compositional surveys and waste combustion.

Toni Gladding has been researching dusts associated with Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF) and other waste management processes for the past 12 years, including both occupational and environmental hazards. Her PhD was entitled 'Health and Safety Hazards in Waste Management: With Specific Reference to
Materials Recovery Facilities'. Additionally, she has recently written a short course for SMEs on waste and recycling/health and safety for the European Union.

Table Of Contents

Introduction
Some examples of cost savings
Some examples of fines and prosecutions

What is waste?
Identifying wastes in the workplace
How much waste do we produce?

Why bother with waste?
Keeping on the right side of the law
Commercial pressures
Environmental aspects

How to manage waste
A waste review - the seven steps to effective waste management

An introduction to key waste legislation
Who are the regulators?
European directives
The Environmental Protection Act and Duty of Care

Waste management in relation to other management systems / in practice
Why Integrate?
Integration in practice

Waste terminology

Gateways to help and support
Legal issues
General enquiries
Technical enquiries
Other useful contacts
Appendices

The report has the BSI Ref BIP 2102 (ISBN 0 580 48412 2), runs to around 100 pages and will be available from August 2006 at a cost of £95 (50% discount for BSI Members).

E-mail cservices@bsi-global.com for more pre-publication details.

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