8 Steps To Close Chemical Pollution Data Gaps & Manage Mitigation
Build and evolve your implementation plan for E2 using a phased-in approach over the first three years and prioritization criteria based on the quantities, risks, hazards, and stakeholder concerns of the subject pollutants and substances.
Where existing measured data are unavailable, testing and sampling at selected representative sites are undertaken to inform further data estimations, considering the European Sustainability Reporting Standards specified hierarchy of measurement methodologies.3
Deploying experts with industry-specific deep process knowledge and expertise in environmental emissions and waste stream flows to develop mass balance calculations based on sound engineering assumptions (e.g., Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams reviews) to minimize the need for additional sampling, testing, and analysis.
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Leveraging existing company databases (e.g., SAP) and external data services for obtaining and analyzing safety data sheets (SDS) to extract the necessary data on the presence of listed substances in direct and indirect materials. Contact suppliers to obtain the relevant information where sufficient composition data are unavailable.
Identify and apply relevant industry-specific published data (e.g., air pollutant emission factors) to the specific industrial processes.
Where composition and volume data cannot be deduced from mass balance, SDS, or published data, further expansion of sampling, testing, and analysis plans can be implemented at scale via testing at representative locations.
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Develop calculation methodologies for emissions to air, water, and soil and amounts of SOCs and SVHCs using the compiled composition and throughput data.
Casting all the above elements in an end-to-end data management plan with strong data governance and internal controls to give financial stakeholders the confidence to sign off.
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