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ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES IN THE MINING: THE IMPORTANCE OF DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY FOR WASTE TREATMENT
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Environmental issues at mining comp anies are so numerous, complex, and interconnected that an ad hoc approach to problem solving is no longer considered effective. The growing pressure from all st akeholders forces these companies to adopt environmental responsibility in all activities. There has a paradigm shift in the attitude of the companies as it switches over from “Passive environmental strategies“ to “Proactive environmental strategies”. In this paper, Integrated Eco Permissions (IEP), incorporated into the national procedure is promoted as a simple, useful method for simultaneously considering both the import ance and performance dimensions when evaluating or defining environmental strategy. Special emphasis is given to the liquid and solid waste treatment. Identification of the environmental risks associated with such waste requires the characterization and quantification of their different types but also an assessment of the vulnerability of the specific environments contingent upon the geological and hydro geological conditions and peripheral targets. The notion of environmental impact of mining activities is only fully meaningful if it includes a change in the initial environmental parameters, due to such activities. These parameters, which govern the "quality of the environment", may have several components: chemical composition of the waters, soils, etc.; biologica l diversity; visual aesthetic qualities, etc. This study uses the IEP issuing to identify e nvironmental strategy as distinctive sets of environmental management activates and ev aluate environmental strategy. The major findings indicate the need that mining i ndustry has from implementing the IEP in national strategy as well about perform benchmarking with competitors, conduct environmental risk assessment, improve their waste management practices, as making environmental investments on regular intervals. A short statistical review is also given for up to date IEP`s issued and all supporte d processes and trainings for municipalities authorities that perform requirement assessments.
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