Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance: The ICI Environmental Burden System

• DOI: 10.1162/jiec.1997.1.4.117
• Publication Date: 2006-05-29T09:41:24Z
• Authors: Michael Wright; David Allen; Roland Clift; Hein Sas
• Keywords: Industrial Ecology

Summary The Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) group has developed a method, called the “environmental burden system” to rank potential environmental impacts of its emissions and wastes. method uses potency factors characterize wastes in ten major impact categories. When compared more traditional approach reporting total mass wastes, provides meaningful picture emissions: it helps identi?. most harmful emissions; public with better understanding ofthe company operations: communicate effectiveness waste emission reduction programs