Achieving Environmental Excellence provides a practical approach to maximizing the long-term profitability and sustainability of a business by merging pollution prevention (P2) techniques with an environmental management system (EMS). Initial overviews of EMS, ISO 14001, and P2 introduce the five phases of fully implementing an integrated EMS/P2 program: getting started; pre-planning activities; planning pollution prevention and other priority environmental management initiatives; implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and improving the initiatives; and reviewing and continually improving the program.
Two in-depth case studies, reviews of six types of environmental management initiatives, a glossary of EMS and P2 terms, photos, diagrams, charts and calculations, and chapter summaries are also included.
