Environment Agency sees RED
The 'speciality organic chemicals' sector is one of six sectors targeted by the HAZRED project, a new EU-Life partnership initiative from the Environment Agency to help companies reduce the amount of hazardous waste they produce.
The 'speciality organic chemicals' sector is one of six sectors targeted by the HAZRED project, a new EU-Life partnership initiative from the Environment Agency to help companies reduce the amount of hazardous waste they produce.
Lasting three-years, HAZRED aims to demonstrate the benefits of setting waste reduction targets and developing waste reduction in industry sectors that have a large proportion of small businesses, and is looking to work with 20 small businesses in the chemicals sector to monitor and evaluate reduction in hazardous waste produced and cost savings achieved.
Participating businesses will receive access to the hazardous waste reduction plan, developed by a team of experts including regulators and industry trade associations, and receive from on-site training from a specialist adviser to assist with implementation, monitoring and evaluation of waste outputs and cost savings. Ongoing support is available through the HAZRED hotline, email and website.
'We are very pleased to support the HAZRED project which aims to help businesses in our sector save money by reducing their waste,' said Julie Hesketh, a waste adviser at the CIA. 'This project is consistent with our own industry sustainability programme, which contains a target for manufacturing sites in the chemical industry to reduce hazardous waste production by 25% (per tonne of production) by 2010.
'Since the introduction of the new Hazardous Waste Regulations (England and Wales) earlier this year, many more businesses are having to deal with hazardous waste and the associated costs for the first time.'
Businesses and stakeholders in the Speciality Organic Chemicals sector who are interested in taking part in the project are invited to attend a workshop, which will take place on the 25th January 2006 at BASF, Cheshire. Other groups involved in the project include the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, the Irish Environmental Protection Agency, the Welsh Assembly Government, Envirowise, the Groundwork Foundation, SafetyKleen and the Waste Recycling Group.