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Support to environmental due
diligence audits in Lebanon and Morocco
ECODIT assisted ENSR
International Ltd (UK) to conduct environmental due diligence audits of two
manufacturing facilities, one in Lebanon and one in Morocco. The audits covered
all aspects of the production and packaging line, in addition to ancillary units
such as warehouse facility, cooling and refrigeration systems, power generators,
wastewater conduits and discharge unit. ECODIT identified relevant
environmental regulations and standards to determine the degree of compliance or
non-compliance and the potential liabilities for environmental compliance. For
each site, we contacted local authorities to ascertain the extent to which there
were known environmental issues involving the facility, prepared a short report
on geological and hydrological information for the site, and identified and
reviewed aerial photos and images to provide information about historical
transformations of the site.
Evaluation of industrial pollution in the Mohammedia-Casablanca region of Morocco
For Morocco's Ministry of Environment (MOE), ECODIT conducted an evaluation of industrial pollution in the Mohammedia-Casablanca region. The study was financed by a grant from the World Bank and the European Investment Bank through the Mediterranean Environmental Technical Assistance Program (METAP). ECODIT conducted pollution prevention and control audits of the 10 most polluting industrial facilities in the region (petrochemical, fertilizer, detergent, oil refining, thermal power, food processing, tannery, aluminum, electroplating). Before the audits, ECODIT worked with MOE to select industrial facilities to be audited. ECODIT organized a pollution prevention workshop with facility decision-makers and plant managers to discuss the objectives of the study, describe pollution prevention techniques and benefits, and introduce the audits questionnaire. After the audits, ECODIT prepared draft audit reports and organized a public consultation to discuss preliminary audit findings. ECODIT then prepared draft action plans for each of the 10 facilities and a draft action plan for the Mohammedia-Casablanca region with institutional and follow-up components. Finally, ECODIT organized a public meeting to sign the action plans.
Municipal Coastal Environment Initiative (MCEI) in the Philippines
ECODIT is a subcontractor to Chemonics on the MCEI project for the Philippines' Department of Environment and Natural Resources (financed by USAID with a budget of $8 million over four years). The project aims at reducing the gaseous, liquid, and solid wastes of the coastal industries in the Philippines. One of its objectives is to reduce by 20 percent the industrial pollution of 400 factories located in the coastal zone (Dumeugete, Bohol, Visayas, and Cebu). The MCEI project will organize training workshops for industries on pollution prevention techniques, environmental management, and ISO 14000. Providing ISO 14001 certification to 200 factories is another objective of the MCEI project. In addition, the MCEI project will strengthen the institutional capacity of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Trade and Industry to implement the environmental agenda, protect the coastal and marine ecosystems, promote a more sustainable industrial development.
Industrial pollution
prevention in Vietnam
For the World Bank, ECODIT completed a study to initiate an Industrial Pollution Prevention program in Vietnam. ECODIT visited four industrial plants (two paper mills, a caustic soda plant, and a plywood plant) located in the two largest industrial zones in Vietnam: Viet Tri and Bien Hoa. ECODIT also outlined a national action plan recommending both the creation of a Task Force led by the State Planning Committee and the Ministry of Environment and a training program to initiate the managers of this entity to pollution prevention principles and techniques. For this study, ECODIT reviewed the new environmental standards promulgated by the Ministry of Environment in March of 1995. These new standards were adapted from the Singapore standards and distinguish between new and existing facilities.
Industrial pollution study in Bénin, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria
ECODIT has provided technical assistance to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Governments of Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria in establishing a program to reduce industrial discharges and protect the Large Marine Ecosystem of Gulf of Guinea. Textile, brewing, palm oil, rubber and petroleum are the primary industries of concern. ECODIT visited seven plants in those industrial sectors as well as laboratories and discussed current industrial pollution prevention and control efforts undertaken by the Governments of Bénin, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria. Based on these visits and meetings, ECODIT developed an action and monitoring plan to inventory and characterize industrial discharges and train local industrial managers in environmental auditing, wastewater pretreatment and treatment, sampling and analysis, and clean technologies.
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