Industries and Environmental policies

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Industries are a measure of a country's economic growth. consequently, countries have a tendency to protect there polluting industry, in particular when they are relatively important economically. However, the growing interest in environmental management has fuelled certain industries to adopt policies that are economically feasible and help curb environmental degradation.
          various factors drive the development of a management approach to environmental performance. these include the following:

  • the need to meet increasingly stricter environmental regulation.
  • stakeholder pressure.
  • supply chain pressure from customers.
  • historically poor relationship with regulatory bodies and local communities.

many industries have established an environmental management system to tackle activities, which either pose a serious threat to ecosystems in the event of an accident or involve significant expenditure because of the cost associated with raw material use or waste disposal. An EMS is the part of an overall management system that includes organizational structure, planning, activities, responsibility, practics, procedure, processes, and resources for developing, implementing, achieving reviewing and maintaining environmental policies. An EMS aims to help organizations achieve sound performance by identifying key activities that impact already or potentially on the environment or by putting in place management control to ensure that the organization continues to meet it's legal and policies required to deal with these impacts.
     Traditionally, most of the work on EMS has been done by those industrial sectors with the greatest potential to affect the environment,e.g. chemical, waste management, and oil refilling sector
in addition to this basic need to control pollution, some companies have identified EMS as an effective way to improving productivity through waste and resource minimization initiative and mechanism for increasing seal as customers turn om to environmentally safer products.
   Arguably, implementing effective EMS can use a full deregulatory tool for business. For example, by reducing some hazardous substances, some organizations in India have achieved a major improvement in their air emission and as a result, they come out of the strict control imposed on them by Environmental Protection Act. (EPA) 1990.

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