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The Ottawa Valley Waste Management Board (OVWMB) is
committed to “Working Together to Walk Lightly
on the Environment” with our community as a whole.
We are dedicated to leadership and innovation in our
field. As good corporate citizens, environmental protection
is a core organizational objective and the responsibility
of all our employees.
Our goal is to minimize our impact
on the ecosystem, continually working to achieve and
surpass our goals, and build upon efforts for pollution
prevention and waste diversion. With our community,
we are partners in environmental stewardship.
We will:
- Comply with all applicable environmental
laws, regulations, OVWMB policies and other corporate
requirements (i.e., ISO 14001)
- Practice pollution prevention through
our actions, education, training, and communication
with our community, and encourage and welcome public
participation
- Reduce the impact to our landfill
through preservation of landfill capacity through
waste diversion activities
- Minimize the regional impact to
land through optimizing landfill practices and harmonizing
regional waste management
- Promote the efficient use and
preservation of natural resources and energy through
innovative 3Rs and composting programs for waste materials
- Foster environmental management
by involving our community as a whole (residents and
commercial), and through our responsibility to ensure
out-sourced services share our environmental management
system values
- Implement our environmental management
system through programs, and communications by setting
appropriate goals, objectives and targets
- Reduce the quantity and toxicity
of materials used and waste generated from our communities
- Link environmental management
to occupational health and safety, and to the quality
of our operations and products
- Promote pride for a job well done
and build upon support from community for environmental
stewardship
- Communicate our environmental
management system to our community through our website,
public liaison committee and The Valley Recycler newsletter
- Monitor our impacts on the environment
and performance through critical control points (i.e.,
landfill leachate, compost odours)
- Continuously work to improve the
effectiveness of our environmental management system
and thus, ensuring continued protection of the environment
- Ensure all OVWRC employees understand,
implement and maintain our environmental policy through
their daily operational activities
revised: February 18,
2005
View
the pdf of the Environmental Policy Statement
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