Conference Papers

The Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) is a management tool that can help the organizations from any industry to better understand what are the environmental and financial potential consequences of their practices using materials and energy. Applying such methodology, that aims and quantifies the flows and stocks of materials within organization in physical units to which are associated the related costs, can give to managers the information needed to generate simultaneously the reduction of the environmental impacts and financial benefits. This poster presents the methodology of continuous improvement of environmental performance and the results of its application in an organization, providing cleaning products, with implemented environmental management system.

Evaluation of environmental performance is used by the top management to make informed decisions about the efficiency and effectiveness of operation environmental management system and to prioritize the environmental line from one stage to another. Selection and use in environmental analysis the relevant indicators for organization is always the key of success for a fast and effective management reviews. This paper aims to provide a guide for reporting environmental performance for organizations in the food industry, specifically in the brewing and beverage industries, easy to use by the top management in the periodic performed analyses. The guide is composed by tables with sets of general indicators / generic and specific: - energy efficiency, - efficient use of raw materials and materials, - use of water resources, - minimizing waste, - minimizing emissions (discharges to air, water, soil), - maintaining biodiversity. Sets of indicators proposed, of a general/generic nature, relevant to the food industry are understandable thereby facilitating assessment of environmental performance in any organization. From these indicators of general / generic nature can be derived specific indicators for various industries to enable organizations to improve the identification and reporting their environmental performance to all stakeholders.

This paper presents a method for assessing the environmental impacts associated with environmental aspects generated from the activities, products or services of an organization, environmental aspects related to new or planned developments, to new or modified activities products and services. The method takes into account the normal and abnormal operating situations, and the emergency situations. The method proposed for assessing the environmental impacts uses a grid with four evaluation criteria, for each criterion is assigned a rating from 1 to 10. The purpose of assessment of environmental impacts is to identify and then keeping under control the environmental aspects that have or can have a significant impact on the environment. The method is used in INCD ECOIND in the compartment Management Systems for the initial environmental analysis performed into organizations in the purpose to design, develop and implement the environmental management system according to SR EN ISO 14001:2005 standard.