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New module at the Propart Academy! ENVIRO MANAGEMENT Checkbook

Why would you let us maintain the Enviro management checkbook?

  • As support for environmental controls
  • To contribute to a cleaner environment
  • Realize savings in money for your company.
  • To get advice when using cleaners, dosage etc.

The connection between the sewer system and a company that discharges waste water is often an oil separator. Great value is attached to proper functioning. This is laid down internationally in a number of rules and standards. DIN EN 858-1, DIN EN 858-2, and the German industry standard DIN 1999-100. If waste water is led through an oil separator, the 20 milligram oil standard does not apply per liter, but of 200 milligrams per liter. The company must ensure that an oil separator and sludge collection pit functions adequately, so that the concentration of oil falls below the value of 200 milligrams per liter remains. This means that an oil separator and sludge trap meet and are dimensioned, installed, used and maintained in accordance with NEN-EN 858-1 and 2.

Transitional law has been arranged for existing sludge collection pits and oil separators:

  • A sludge trap and an oil separator placed before 1 January 2008 must comply are used in accordance with NEN 7089;
  • A sludge trap and an oil separator placed before 1 March 1997 must be installed on the how quantity of wastewater.

Many damage to the environment in the past were not clearly attributable to a certain one cause, certainly not in densely populated areas with a lot of industry. In these areas often come a lot of possible causes. Certainly if there is a strong short-term pollution arises in an area with many companies, tracing the perpetrator is a difficult job. For the enforcers of the environmental law it was therefore necessary to get evidence more easily. Nowadays, if the enforcer can prove on the basis of instructions that the separator could in principle be suitable or responsible for the pollution, this actually is the case. From this point on there is a reverse burden of proof and the owner of the separator can prove on the basis of facts that he is not the culprit. In this burden of proof, the Propart Checkbook can be an important tool if discussions arise