USAG Heidelberg presents:

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USAG Heidelberg presents

• Environmental Management System
• (EMS)

Training
for General Awareness, Recycling Energy
Conservation
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Objectives of this training

• Develop an awareness of our EMS
• Provide general understanding of EMS principles
• Create a sense of individual responsibility for
  the success of our EMS
• Give advice for recycling
• and energy conservation

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What is an EMS
?
?
?

• A framework for managing the impacts of an
  organizations activities, products, and services
  on the environment.
• A tool to help the Community stay in conformance
  with legislated and voluntary environmental
  requirements, and to continuously improve its
  overall environmental performance.
• The Garrison Commanders program,
  but everyones involvement.

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Benefits of an EMS

• Sustains mission readiness.
• Ensures employees know and follow procedures,
  which will reduce or avoid environmental impacts.
• Improves environmental performance, reduces
  costs, and enhances compliance with Final
  Governing Standards, Army Regulations, and Host
  Nation Regulations.
• Proactive vs. reactive ? decrease in
  environmental risk
• Stronger working relationship with community and
  regulators improved public image.

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EMS shall be implemented fence line to fence line
to include our
Soldiers
Tenants
Families
Activities
Products and Services
Contractors
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EMS Drivers

• Executive Order 13423, signed by President George
  W. Bush, requires all US government organizations
  to implement an EMS, (Jan 2007)
• DOD Policy, describing EMS requirements (Apr
  2002)
• DASA (ESOH) Memo, describing EMS requirements
  (Aug 2001)
• Sustainable range program plan, describing EMS
  requirements (Aug 2003)

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ISO 14001

• Army leadership has decided to use the ISO 14001
  standard as a model for developing and
  implementing an EMS at each installation.
• The ISO 14001 provides general guidance for
  implementing an EMS.
• Major components

Policy
Management Review
Planning
Continual improvement
Implementation and Operation
Checking
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Our Environmental Policy

• Commanders environmental statement
• Garrisons commitment to
• - Pollution Prevention
• - Compliance with environmental laws
• - Continuous improvement

Everyone within the USAG Heidelberg needs to know
and follow this Policy !
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Planning Environmental
Aspects / Impacts
Activity/Product/ Operation
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Our significant aspects
Energy Consumption Solid Waste
Generation Vehicle Utilization
Hazardous Waste Generation
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Objectives Targets
An EMS requires an organization to establish and
maintain measurable objectives and targets for
the identified significant aspects in order to
reduce environmental impacts.
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Our objectives

• Increase the recycling rate.
• Reduce energy consumption.
• Minimize the number of non-fuel efficient,
  over-sized vehicles.
• USAG Heidelberg military units participate in the
  Hazmat Reuse Center program.
• Expand the participation in the Lead Acid Battery
  Recharging Program.

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Environmental Operational Controls

• documented procedures that describe the
  appropriate actions for managing those
  activities, processes and operations that have or
  can have significant environmental impacts
• Standard Operating Procedures
• Calibration Instructions
• Work Instructions
• Manufacturers Operating Instructions

Operational Controls must be followed!
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roles responsibilities
Your

• Know our EMS policy.
• Know, understand support the Garrison
  objectives.
• Know and follow standard operating procedures.
• Attend EMS competency-based training
• Personnel whose jobs have been determined to
  have significant impacts on the environment will
  receive additional, job specific training to help
  minimize those impacts.
• 5. Maintain and complete all required
  environmental records/documentation that are
  applicable to your area of responsibility.

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What else can you do?

• Help to improve our recycling rate!
• because
• Recycling saves the
• Community funds!
• ? Each ton of
• properly segregated
• paper saves the
• Community 580 !!!

What YOU can do??? Make sure you properly
segregate your waste materials!
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Blue Paper Bins and Containers
Photocopy paper Telephone books Writing paper

• Advertising Leaflets
• Books Brochures
• Cardboard
• Cardboard files/folders
• Catalogs
• Clean paper bags
• Corrugated cardboard
• Magazines
• Newspapers
• Office paper
• Paper packaging

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Yellow Bags Containers

• Aluminium foil
• Beverage cans
• Bottle tops, caps, lids
• Food cans
• Juice cartons
• Milk / Beverage cartons
• Plastic bags
• Plastic beakers
• Plastic bottles
• Plastic containers
• Plastic foils
• Polystyrene foam parts
• Styrofoam

and everything with the Gruener Punkt Symbol
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Brown Bins (Compost)

• Banana skins
• Citrus fruit peelings
• Coffee grounds with filter
• Eggshells
• Flowers
• Fruit leftovers
• Hair
• Newspaper (only as wrapping)
• Nutshells
• Pot plants
• Potting compost
• Salad leftovers
• Solid food leftovers
• Vegetable leftovers

No meat, animal fat and fish remains!
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Glass containers

• Clear glass bottles and jars
• Green glass bottles and jars
• Brown/amber glass bottles
• Broken glassware
• Preserving glass
• etc.

No porcelain, mirror glass and window pane!
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Battery Boxes

• Only for dry cell (Household) batteries!

(Please take car batteries to the Recycling
Center at PHV!)
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Hazardous Waste
Hazardous Waste (see the list presented below)
should ONLY be disposed of at the PHV Recycling
Center or in coordination with the Environmental
Division (DSN 387-3142)

• Alkaline solutions
• Car Batteries
• Cleaning agents
• Brake fluid
• Disinfectants
• Energy-saving light-bulbs
• Fluorescent Tubes
• Glues
• Insecticides
• Mercury thermometers
• Oil filters

Old medicine Paint, varnish Pesticides Photo
chemicals Solvents Spot remover Used motor
oil Wood preservatives
Operating Hours Mon-Sat 0800-1200
1300-1600 POC Mr. T. Vowinkel 387-3180
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Trash / Rubbish

• Adhesive tape
• Ashes cigarette butts
• Ball-point pens
• Bones
• Q-tips used Kleenex
• Diapers and sanitary pads
• Dirty recyclable trash
• Dust
• Felt-tip pens
• Light Bulbs
• Magnetic tapes
• Meat, fat fish leftovers
• Porcelain
• Rubber bands

Trash Containers should only be used as a last
resort!
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Paper Reduction Tips

• Think before you print
• ? Print only the pages you need.
• ? Shorten Documents, where possible.
• ? Set computer defaults to print double-sided.
• 2. Use the back of one-sided copies that you do
  not need as scratch paper.
• 3. Have trays in your office area to collect and
  reuse one-sided paper, envelopes and
  file-folders. (Cardboard-boxes are also available
  from the Commissary).

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Energy Conservation
Sufficient Daylighting??? Dont Use Room Lighting!

Tip Turn off unused and unneeded lights
Turn off Lights in Rooms that are unoccupied!
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Exterior lights on during daylight hours use the
most expensive energy!
Find the switch, or place a service order
387-3310 or SERVICEORD411_at_hdpw.eur.army.mil
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Use compact fluorescent light bulbs instead of
incandescent bulbs.
Compact fluorescent bulbs use 1/4th the energy of
incandescent bulbs, last 10 times longer, and are
more cost effective.
1 compact fluorescent bulb
10 standard incandescent bulb

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• Tip

Turn your monitor off at night and at lunch or
when away from your desk!!!
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POCs

• Mr. Thomas Cahn
• EMS Program Manager
• DSN 387-3271
• Mail Thomas.Cahn1_at_eur.army.mil
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• Ms. Susanne Barth
• EMS Administrator
• DSN 387-3144
• Mail Susanne.Barth_at_eur.army.mil