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Environmental management and technologies in the business
sector
Abstract
Businesses today are involved in a variety of practices aimed at preventing
or reducing environmental degradation generated from their production activity.
During the 1990s, the environmental regulation context changed. Increasingly,
governments have relied on voluntary initiatives undertaken by businesses to
reduce pollutants and waste, as opposed to regulations. However, at the same
time, the federal authorities have undertaken to revise the Canadian Environmental
Protection Act (CEPA), in order to increase federal power for environmental
regulation but with strong emphasis put on promoting pollution prevention. Consequently,
businesses today are looking at alternative ways to limit impacts from their
operations on the environment.
Environmental Management and Technologies in the Business Sector presents a
profile of business demand for environmental processes and technologies, pollution
prevention methods and environmental practices, such as environmental management
systems and voluntary actions. What types of treatment processes are the most
popular ones for reducing gas emissions, liquid, solid and hazardous waste,
noise, radiation and vibration, for saving energy or for site reclamation? What
is the market for environmental processes and technologies? What pollution prevention
methods are used more frequently? What additional environmental practices have
businesses adopted (for instance, are voluntary programs more popular than eco-labelling?)?
This paper is based on results from the Survey of Environmental Protection
Expenditures. For the first time, the survey asked detailed questions on the
type of environmental process or technology used and the adoption of environmental
practices. The paper is a complement to both 1996-1997 and 1998 Environmental
Protection Expenditures in the Business Sector reports (Catalogue no. 16F0006XIE).
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