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What can your corporation do?

 

Going beyond environmental compliance can bring business benefits. Many businesses have realised that acting in a socially and environmentally responsible way is more than just a legal duty. It affects your bottom line and the long-term success of your business.

Decima strives to be a facilitator of change both private and corporate. We link buisnesses to individuals by rewarding consious comsumer behavior, and social and environmetal responsibility of buisnesses. 

 

 

  • Get informed about how your buisness can be certified by Stiftelsen miljøfyrtÃ¥rnet. http://www.miljofyrtarn.no/

  • All corporations working with Decima, gets an symbol on their projects showing that they are a part of the Decima vision and community. This will serve as a proof that the buisness is doing their best, on these projects, to help their community and the environment.

  • Comply with legislation regarding emissions into the air.

  • Store waste safely and securely, make sure it is treated appropriately, ensure it is collected by an authorised organisation (such as your local authority or a licensed private waste contractor) and complete a waste transfer note or consignment note when waste is handed over.

  • Manage your business waste for recycling by separating paper, card, plastic, metals and glass prior to collection. Most food businesses also need to separate food waste for recycling.

  • Ensure you do not cause a statutory nuisance which could affect someone's health or annoy your neighbours. This covers things like producing noise, smoke, fumes, gases, dust, odour, light pollution or accumulating rubbish.

  • Get permission from your water company before you allow trade effluentsuch as waste chemicals, detergents, cooling or cleaning water to enter the sewerage system.

  • Register with the National Packaging Waste Database, or join an approved compliance scheme if you handle more than 50 tonnes of packaging and have a turnover of more than £2 million. You must then provide evidence that you're recovering and recycling a set amount of packaging waste.

  • Make sure that you comply with restrictions on the storage and use of hazardous substances. Ensure that any hazardous waste your business produces is correctly classified and described, and is either disposed of or recovered at an appropriately authorised facility.

  • Notify the relevant enforcing authority and take steps to prevent the damage if your business activities pose an imminent threat to the environment. If your business activities cause actual environmental damage, you must take remedial action to repair the damage.

 

 

You must ensure that any waste you produce as a result of your business operations is stored safely and securely, treated appropriately and collected for disposal or recycling by an organisation authorised to do so (such as your local authority or a licensed private waste contractor).

In addition, the Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2012 require all businesses to separate the following forms of commercial waste for recycling:

  • paper

  • card

  • plastic

  • metals

  • glass

If your business processes, prepares or distributes food and produces over 50kg of food waste per week, you are also required to separate food waste unless your business operates in a designated rural area. Food businesses in non-rural areas producing over 5kg of food waste per week will have to comply with the regulations from 1 January 2016. Where collections of food waste are available, from 1 January 2016 it will be illegal to dispose of food waste directly or indirectly into a public drain or sewer.

 

 

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