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Best Environmental Management

Practices

A toolkit for Resource Efficiency

Learning from frontrunners – helping to improve

Pierre Gaudillat – European Commission, Joint Research Centre

Prague, 22/05/2018 - Presentation at EREK Workshop

Technical assistance tools and public support schemes to exploit resource efficiency potential in SMEs

Best Environmental Management Practices

A toolkit to make the most of EMAS

The EMAS Sectoral Reference Documents and the Best Environmental Management Practices (BEMPs)

BEMPs, Environmental Performance Indicators and Benchmarks of Excellence

Sectors addressed and examples of BEMPs

Looking forward: the Green Best Practice Community

Content of this presentation

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Sectoral Reference Documents on Best Environmental Management Practice (BEMP)

Legal basis: EMAS Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009

BEMPs support all businesses and other organisations to improve environmental performance, not only EMAS registered organisations

Sectors addressed

Development of BEMPs for 11 priority sectors

Retail Tourism Construction AgriculturePublicAdministration

Telecommunications Metal productsmanufacturing

Electronic equipmentmanufacturing

Carmanufacturing

Waste management

Food & beveragemanufacturing

Main elements of the Sectoral Reference Documents:

an example

• Best environmental management practice (BEMP)

• Environmental performance indicator

• Benchmark of excellence

Food waste minimisation by retailers

kg food waste generation per m2 of sales area

Zero food waste sent to landfill or incineration

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An example from Retail Trade:

BEMP: Minimising the energy

consumption of commercial

refrigeration of food:

• Display cases covering

• Improved system design

(e.g. heat recovery)

• Better maintenance

BEMP is...

• Peer-reviewed measures / actions

that minimise environmental

impact

• direct and indirect aspects

• technical/technological as well as

management /organisational type

• fully implemented by best

performers

• technically feasible and

economically viable

...but not:

• Obsolete / common practice

• Emerging techniques (not yet

proven at scale)BEMP

Stakeholder involvement

Sectors addressed

Development of BEMPs for 11 priority sectors

Retail Tourism Construction AgriculturePublicAdministration

Telecommunications Metal productsmanufacturing

Electronic equipmentmanufacturing

Carmanufacturing

Waste management

Food & beveragemanufacturing

Bread, biscuits and cakes

manufacturing

Meat and poultry meat products

processingWine manufacturing

Best Environmental Management Practices for the food and beverage manufacturing sector

Avoiding food waste in manufacturing operations

Environmental sustainability assessment of products and/or operations

Packaging

BEMPs for all food and beverage manufacturers

Transport and distribution

Energy management & energy efficiency

Cleaning

Supply chain management

Renewable energy in manufacturing Freezing and refrigeration

BEMPs for specific sub-sectors

Soft drinks manufacturing

Olive oil manufacturing

Beer manufacturing

Fruit juice manufacturing

Minimising

energy use for

baking

High pressure

processing for

decontamination

of meat

CO2

recovery

from beer

production

Blowers use for

drying of

bottles/packaging

Reduced

washing of

olives upon

reception

Coffee processing

Green coffee

preheating in batch

coffee roasting

Reducing water &

energy use & organic

waste generation in

the winery

Whey

recovery

Cheese making

Value added

use of fruit

residues

BEMPs examples

BEMP example (food and beverage manufacturing):CO2 recovery in beer production

BEMP is:

•Recover the CO2 generated from the tops of the fermentation tanks/vessels, the maturation vessels and the bright beer tanks

•Scrub, purify and compress for storage

•Use the recovered CO2 in-house (e.g. for carbonation and bottling) or sell to others (e.g. in the framework of industrial symbiosis)

Indicators

•kg CO2 recovered / hL beer produced

Benchmarks

•50% of CO2 produced by fermentation is recovered

BEMP example (car manufacturing):

Optimisation of the compressed air system

• Demand-side measures:1. Avoid and replace misuse of compressed air

2. Review usage of compressed air tools

3. Monitor and control demand

4. Set up awareness programmes

• Distribution network and system measures:5. Identify and minimise leaks

6. Depressurisation

7. Zoning

8. Use of valves

• Supply-side measures:9. Size and manage compressor system according to demand

10. Increase the overall energy efficiency of the compressed air system

11. Increase the specific energy efficiency of major compressed air system components

12.Regular filter inspection

13.Energy efficient dryers and optimal drain selection

14.Install waste heat recovery (see image)

We are developing a new way of working...

Continuous identification of

BEMPs

Continuous identification of

BEMPs

Getting the message outGetting the

message out

Broaden stakeholder engagement

Broaden stakeholder engagement

Are there new best practices in the

sector?

Are some BEMPs outdated?

Let frontrunners and organisations tell us

Meet actual needs of organisations

User friendly format

Partner with relevant multipliers

Stimulate contributions

Engage key sectoral actors

Thanks!Any questions? Interested to stay in touch?

You can reach us at pierre.gaudillat@ec.europa.eu

JRC-EMAS-SRD@ec.europa.eu

- http://susproc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/bemp

- https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/best-environmental-management-practice

Backup slides

BEMP: Whey recovery in cheese making

From BEMP reports to an online tool & community

• BEMPs for 11 sector

• Interest from stakeholders

But there are improvement opportunities:

• Reports are not the best format for

communication

• When does a BEMP need update?

• Need to sustain motivation and

minimise efforts for stakeholders

Development of the new approach

• On-line tool to access information

• Community

Features:

o More user friendly outputs

o Systematic monitoring and

stakeholder involvement

o More flexible information exchange