CAE Annual Environmental Report

CAE 1999 Environmental Report

1999 Environmental ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN

Supported the laboratory disposal of lab wastes by funding cleanup.
Reduced fume hood exhaust by retrofitting baffles
Communicating The CAE Environmental Policy
Encouraging and funding operational environmental process(es)
Initiated team environmental progress reports
Active search for environmental responsible potential clients
Environmental Plan for next year.

ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT METRICS

Information on team expenditure on environment

TEAM 90 and CAE Lab cooperative effort on lab sample cleanup -
-Reduction of natural gas and electrical consumption: Since about 3 units of fossil energy are required for every equalivant unit of electrical energy CAE is tracking total fossil energy consumed as Carbon.

Information on objectives and targets

No target for 1999

Comparison of environmental performance against targets

No target for 1999

Targets for 2000 are:

to reduce gas, electricity and VOC purchases by 5% per unit of sale

Technological Environmental Improvement and Innovation

Lab Fume hood baffle to reduce air makeup. Reduced fume hood exhaust by retrofitting baffles, suggested by Siemens, which reduced the exhaust and makeup air by 50%.

Example of innovative - Re-use of the materials: about six pounds of potassium permanganate came back from Denver. The stuff was old and we didn't want to trust it as a reagent for measuring microgram quantities of metals. Therefore, it was disposed of using Chemical Analytics, Inc. who a deal with a farmer in Michigan that has a low amount of potassium in his soil. The potassium permanganate is rendered neutral in solution and mixed with ammonia as a fertilizer for the farmer. (The manganese is also a soil additive).

Example of innovative - Toxic Elimination: CAE has also switched to a different type of Orsat Chemicals, which is now manufacturing by the CAE Laboratory Services Team. There is no chromium in the solutions and once spent, they are innocuous and can be dumped down the drain. Thus, we have eliminated one source of the listed wastes.

The CAE Environmental Policy

Slogan: We are dedicated to a clean environment.

Policy:

Clean Air Engineering supports the concept of sustainable development and strives to do business with companies that are environmentally responsible. We will continually identify ways to reduce our negative impact on the global environment. We will employ both innovation and continuous improvement approaches for Pollution Prevention and Pollution Control with a target of zero for each pollutant. We will quantify and publish our progress annually.

Environmental Guidance:

We will not knowingly violate any environmental laws unless it part of a publicly defined strategy to overturn bad legislation or bad regulation.
We will proactively fight bad environmental regulation.
We will never compromise our integrity by being involved in any way with efforts to violate or circumvent the letter or the spirit of the law.
We will be an advocate for the legal rights of our clients and will secure and safeguard all data and results paid for by our clients unless directed otherwise by them in writing.
We will benchmark off the best when issuing our annual environmental report. (See Eastman Chemical’s Annual Environmental Report)