How Environmental Management Systems help keep Recycling Industries in check

It is a billion-dollar industry with unparalleled profits that can only be limited to a company’s global connections. But many-a-times smaller industries in the process of making better profits

get carried away and end up polluting the environment while running a recycling plant.

Recycling industries belong to that sector of industries that work with the environment who help in picking up and segregating the leftovers of both consumers and the industries that cater to them. In short they do all the dirty-work that needs to get done and help reduce industrial and consumer waste protecting the environment in the bargain.

Recycling industries today are built upon millions of dollars of investment worldwide. They absorb a majority of industrial and consumer generated waste, including electronic waste, ferrous metal scrap, rubber, glass, wood pulp and other forms of scrap materials which would usually end up in landfills simply polluting the environment. Recycling is a billion-dollar industry with unparalleled profits that can only be limited to a company’s global connections.

But there are downsides even in such a well-structured system. Many-a-times smaller industries in the process of making better profits get carried away and end up polluting the environment while running a recycling business. Such smaller plants or industries are often set up in developing nations wherein the laws and regulations related to the environment are not much into force. Individuals find loopholes in such a system and establish companies that in the name of recycling that end up polluting the environment; with by-products that often end up getting cast-off elsewhere leading to bigger environmental problems. Even larger companies at times do drift away from what they are supposed to do and eventually land up in huge disputes and problems with authorities eventually leading to their closure.

An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a great way for keeping things in check. It helps plan, prepare and execute a well laid out environmental policy of a company and works as a tool to improve that same policy over time; finding ways to deliver better performance and efficiency while reducing waste and making more efficient use of natural resources to do the same.

Metal recycling companies in Dubai, especially the ones dealing with ferrous scrap in Dubai, find it incredibly efficient and productive to follow an environmental policy and stick to it. Metal trading companies in the UAE are incredibly efficient by default as they can be selective about what they pick up as scrap and then utilize minimum resources in either re-processing or packaging materials as feed-stock for different manufacturers.

Such a system with the help of worldwide standards already set in place helps an organisation deliver while efficiently making use of its policies, resources and responsibilities which gets continuously evaluated. The evaluation works for the good of the company as well as the environment, keeping all its branches in check and helping the company reduce costs in a way that it will provide minimum environmental impact while keeping up with a higher, yet stringent production output.