Environmental harm

The regulators (EA and SEPA) have developed a framework by which, particularly Part A processes can assessed for harm. This involves a concentration upon the following areas, and thus, are the areas that the company's operating such processes must also concentrate upon themselves:

• identification and quantification of releases
  
  
• compliance with statutory emission limits
  
  
• identification of the most significant emissions in environmental terms
  
  
• compliance of emissions with proposed environmental quality objectives
  
  
• whether the emissions are environmentally acceptable
  
  
• identification of the BPEO from environmentally sound routes
  
  
• identification of the prescribed process and the necessary environmental monitoring that needs to be undertaken.
  
  

Prescribed substances to air that must be monitored under this regime and hence, reduced are:

• oxides of nitrogen and other nitrogen compounds
  
  
• oxides of carbon
  
  
• organic compounds and partial oxidation products
  
  
• metals, metalloids and their compounds
  
  
• asbestos (suspended particulate matter and fibres), glass fibres and mineral fibres
  
  
• halogens and their compounds
  
  
• phosphorous and its compounds
  
  
• particulate matter
  
  
• oxides of sulphur and other sulphur compounds