Environmental Management Systems and the P2AD Partnership Program

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Environmental Management Systems and the P2AD
Partnership Program

• August 15, 2007
• GA State Parks Lodges Region

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What is P²AD?

• Non-regulatory division of the Georgia Department
  of Natural Resources
• P2AD provides confidential, free assistance to
  clients that want to reduce water and energy use,
  waste, and emissions
• These services are available to any Georgia
  business, service industry, governmental agency
  or institution

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P²AD Partnership Program

• Fosters environmental leadership by
• Recognizing superior environmental performance
• Providing real bottom-line business benefits
• Encouraging social responsibility, community
  involvement, corporate citizenship
• Using flexible approach based on the
  Environmental Management System (EMS)
• Assist, connect and reward for FREE

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Partner Incentives

• Regulatory Incentives
• Better access to state regulators
• Permitting Administrative relief flexibility

• Business Incentives
• Lower costs
• Higher Efficiency
• Reduced environmental liability
• Improved product competitiveness
• Enhanced company image

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Partners by Sector
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Energy Conserved
Since the program began, P2AD Partners have
reduced their energy use by 100.6 billion BTUs
enough to power 2,680 U.S. households for a
year.
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Water Saved
P2AD Partners have reduced their water use by
237.5 million gallons enough to fill the
Georgia Aquarium almost 30 times.
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Solid Waste Reduced
Since the program began, P2AD Partners have
reduced solid waste sent to landfills by 1,809
tons almost 12 times the weight of the Statue
of Liberty.
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Recycled Materials Used
Since the program began, P2AD Partners have
increased their use of recycled materials by
16,487 tons saving more than 12,000 cubic
yards of landfill space.
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Technical Assistance

• Free, Confidential, Non-regulatory technical
  assistance to ALL
• Delivery Methods
• On-site assessments
• Phone/email
• Information resources (website, fact sheets)
• Tools (www.ScrapMatchGA.org, Sustainable Office
  Toolkit)
• Training facilitation

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Areas of Technical Assistance

• Solid waste reduction, reuse, and recycling
• Water and energy efficiency
• Toxic/hazardous waste reduction
• Raw materials substitution
• Air emissions reduction
• Product stewardship
• Environmentally preferable purchasing
• Sustainable business practices
• Environmental management systems

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Georgia Environmental Partnership

• Pollution prevention assistance division (P2AD)
• Department of biological and agricultural
  engineering (BAE), University of Georgia
• Enterprise Innovation Institute (EII), Georgia
  Tech

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What is an EMS?

• Framework that allows organizations to identify
  then manage their environmental responsibilities
  in a more systematic way
• Method for improving environmental performance
• Proactive, not reactive
• Uses the continual improvement concept from
  quality management
• Flexible system

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EMS Development Phases
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EMS Elements Planning

• Develop written environmental policy
• Baseline resource use and waste
• Determine significant aspects and impacts
• Set action plans for priority aspects
• General environmental awareness training
• Control legal and other requirements

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Other EMS Elements

• Implement (DO)
• Establish roles and responsibilities
• Establish procedures communicating
  EMS/environmental performance
• Training
• Emergency preparedness and employee incentive
  programs into your EMS
• Documentation
• Implement action plans
• Checking and corrective action (CHECK)
• Management Review (ACT)

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First steps

• Obtain Top Management Commitment
• Identify a Champion
• Establish EMS Advisory Committee
• Conduct Gap Analysis
• Develop Communicate Environmental Policy
• Establish EMS Roles Responsibilities
• Identify Environmental Aspects Impacts/Legal
  Requirements

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EMS Lingo

• Environmental Aspect
• Element of an organizations activities,
  products, or services that can interact with and
  impact the environment
• Environment
• Surroundings in which an organization
  interacts, including air, water, land, natural
  resources, flora, fauna, humans, and their
  interrelation
• Environmental Impact
• Any change to the environment, whether adverse
  or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from
  an organizations activities, products, or
  services

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Green Parks EMS Toolkit

• The Toolkit is divided into 5 focus areas
• 1) Waste Streams fact-sheets and worksheets on
  identifying waste creation at your park
• 2) Operations fact-sheets and worksheets for
  determining the environmental impact of your
  parks operations
• 3) Your Park this section provides guidance and
  worksheets for developing an EMS for your park
• 4) Help this information about applicable
  environmental regulations and how to contact P2AD
• 5) Promotion CD resources for promoting your
  program

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Green Parks EMS Toolkit (cont.)

• Many topics of daily operation are covered
• Park Operations
• Solid Waste Management
• Transportation
• Fleet Equipment Management
• Retail Restaurants
• Lodging
• Public Employee Education
• Many, many more

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Green Parks EMS Toolkit (cont.)

• Your Park this section lays out the steps to
  develop an EMS at your park to manage the
  potential environmental impacts you have
  identified at your park.
• Six Step Environmental Management Plan
• Create an Environmental Policy Statement
• Determine Environmental Priorities
• Define Actions to Address Priorities
• Implement the Plan
• Measure Effectiveness
• Review
• This will put your park on a path to
  sustainability and continuous environmental
  improvement

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Green Parks EMS Toolkit (cont.)

• The Toolkit has other resources on CD and the web
  
• Examples
• Consolidated List of Chemicals EPA list of
  hazardous waste
• Toolkit for Solid Waste Management
• Energy Audit Workbook
• Green Building Operations and Maintenance Manual

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Keys to Success

• Obtain commitment support from top
• Understand your organizational structure and open
  lines of communication between departments
• Have food, drinks or snacks for meetings
• End meeting with objectives, a to do list date
  for next meeting
• Respect the organizations calendar and peoples
  time
• Build upon existing aquarium practices - only
  develop new practices where gaps exist

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Next Steps

1. Establish an environmental team at your park
   send a roster of members to P2AD
2. Draft an environmental policy send a copy to
   P2AD
3. GAP Analysis P2AD and GEP will be coming to your
   park this fall to perform this analysis
4. Baseline P2AD will work with you to determine a
   baseline of energy, water use and waste
   generation at your park

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For Questions

• Contact
• Thatcher Young
• Pollution Prevention Advisor
• 404-651-5548 or
• thatcher_young_at_p2ad.org