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  ENVIRON’s expert assistance in assessing and mitigating potential environmental risks enables clients to respond more effectively to current business, regulatory and legal challenges, and to reduce or eliminate future liabilities.

  Key services:

  • Air Quality Management
  • Climate Change and Energy Management
  • Due Diligence
  • Ecology and Sediment Management
  • Expert Services
  • Center for Exposure Reconstruction and Analysis (CERA)
  • Impact Assessment and Planning
  • International Finance
  • Risk Assessment and Management
  • Site Investigation and Remediation
  • Sustainability
  • Water Resources
• Facilities

  Clients rely on ENVIRON’s technical and strategic assistance to help ensure regulatory compliance and manage potential liabilities of facility operations, and to assess environmental, health and safety risks during the merger and acquisition due diligence process.

  Key services:

  • Air Quality Management
  • Building Technology Services
  • Climate Change and Energy Management
  • Compliance Assistance
  • Due Diligence
  • Ecology and Sediment Management
  • Expert Services
  • Center for Exposure Reconstruction and Analysis (CERA)
  • Impact Assessment and Planning
  • Industrial Wastewater Management
  • International Finance
  • Occupational Health and Safety
  • Risk Assessment and Management
  • Site Investigation and Remediation
  • Sustainability
  • Water Resources
• Human Health

  ENVIRON’s preeminent skills in health sciences, exposure assessment and chemical transport help guide efforts to address the increasingly complex challenges related to protecting human health in occupational, consumer and environmental settings.

  Key services:

  • Air Quality Management
  • Building Technology Services
  • Expert Services
  • Center for Exposure Reconstruction and Analysis (CERA)
  • Occupational Health and Safety
  • Product Safety and Regulatory Support
  • Risk Assessment and Management
  • Sustainability
  • Water Resources

Facilities   Sustainability

WEEE, RoHS and EcoDesign

Two EC Directives that became law in many European Member States in 2005 have significant implications for electrical and electronics companies in terms of product design, manufacturing, sales and management accounting.

The Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) required producers to recycle waste electrical and electronic equipment from August 2005; the Directive on Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) effectively banned certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic products from July 2006. Producers are defined as companies that manufacture affected electrical or electronic equipment, resell equipment produced by other manufacturers, or import such equipment into a Member State.

ENVIRON has set up a dedicated website (www.B2BWEEE.com) that provides information and advice to help companies comply with the WEEE and RoHS Directives and highlights how business-to-business (B2B) producers can apply eco-design techniques to reduce their WEEE recycling costs.

Questions?

To discuss your issues and challenges related to WEEE, RoHS and EcoDesign, please contact Aidan Turnbull, Principal.

EcoDesigning for EcoEfficiency

A leader in power and automation technologies, ABB turned to ENVIRON for EcoDesign support to minimise WEEE recycling costs for its range of instrumentation products. We identified a number of EcoDesign changes that have significantly reduced the costs of recycling ABB products whilst maintaining—and in some cases even reducing—product manufacturing costs.

Demonstrating EcoDesign Benefits

Smith's Group, an international engineering and technology group, commissioned ENVIRON to design, develop and deliver pilot projects in the UK, US and Germany to demonstrate the business benefits of EcoDesign to companies in its medical, aerospace, detection and maritime divisions.