Environmental Requirements vs Economic and Environmental Sustainability
ECOS provide expert environmental knowledge, advice and solutions to all types of businesses. We help our clients to address their requirements in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner. Our expertise includes Water & Wastewater Quality, Control & Treatment Compliance & Liability Investigation & Risk Assessment Sustainability: Environmental & Economic Licence Application & Review Best Practice,...
READ ARTICLE >Minimize your environmental liability
Minimize potential environmental liability by ensuring that your business, employees and contractors understand: Legal & corporate requirements Their duties & obligations What to recognize What actions to take What and How to report Who is responsible Why it is important ECOS builds in-house expertise using a range of formal and informal training forums including one to...
READ ARTICLE >Water Shortages and Water Charges: Water – Rainwater – Greywater – Wastewater
Water Shortages and Water Charges: in summary there is not enough water and we must pay for what we use. ECOS helps all types of businesses to address their requirements in a sustainable manner, both economically and environmentally, by providing Expert environmental knowledge Independent advice Proactive solutions Reduce – Reuse – Recyle Water – Rainwater – Greywater...
READ ARTICLE >Save money through informed pollution prevention
Prevention of waste production and pollution is more efficient and economically viable than non-compliance with legal requirements. ECOS helps all types of businesses to cost effectively comply with legal requirements and prevent pollution. ✓ Reduce the input of materials and energy ✓ Reuse or sympathetically dispose/treat of wastes ✓ Employ the most...
READ ARTICLE >Eco-innovation Briefs
The eco-innovation briefs are short reports highlighting selected findings from the Eco-Innovation Observatory (EIO) reports and analysis. Eco-Innovation Scoreboard: the 2011 Results The Eco-Innovation Challenge: Pathways to a resource efficient Europe The Eco-Innovation Scoreboard at a glance Eco-Innovators in Europe: Focus on Materials Innovation for Sustainable Water Introducing eco-innovation: from incremental changes to systemic transformations...
READ ARTICLE >Great questions make great reporting.
Reports are great when they are accurate, to the point and understandable Documentation and reporting are fundamental to the management of environmental requirements. Technical Review Environmental Sustainability Cost-Benefit Analysis License Application and Review Environmental Compliance Environmental Liability Risk Assessments ECOS prepares and presents reports to assist clients to meet their corporate and legal requirements. We...
READ ARTICLE >Is your environmental information reliable?
Reliable information is a fundamental requirement for environmental issues to be correctly assessed. Do you know what information is required? How do you know that your information is reliable? Do you have the knowledge required to interpret environmental data and information? ECOS supports you to identify your environmental requirements, interpret technical information and address potential...
READ ARTICLE >“An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure”
Business can save money through informed pollution prevention. Prevention is more efficient and economically viable than non-compliance with legal requirements. ECOS helps all types of businesses to cost effectively prevent pollution and comply with legal requirements. ✓ Reduce the input of materials and energy ✓ Minimize the amount of waste for treatment and disposal ✓ ...
READ ARTICLE >€34.8 million in new funding to bring environmental solutions to market
The European Commission is launching a €34.8 million call for eco-innovation projects. The call is open to eco-innovative products, techniques, services and processes that aim to prevent or reduce environmental impacts, or which contribute to the optimal use of resources. This year’s call has five main priority areas: materials recycling water sustainable building products green...
READ ARTICLE >Environmental Management: Nice Idea or Requirement?
Environmental management (EM) is the process of managing the issues associated with all the activities and technologies pertaining to an organisations environmental performance. Environmental management is based on the continuous improvement of an organisation’s environmental performance over time. An Environmental Management Systems (EMS) should therefore continuously change in line with the organisation’s activities and external...
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