This page contains only a listing of the potential P2/CI tools and strategies that can be used. For an brief explanation of each tool refer to Appendix F of CASA's pollution prevention/continuous improvement project team final report.
Legislative
- Regulatory backstop
- Mandated P2 plans
- Economic instruments
- Tax incentives for good performers
- Preferential tax treatment for companies that pursue P2
- Emissions trading
- Green procurement
- Liabilities for senior executives
- Review of licences
- Approval conditions to implement P2
Voluntary initiatives and partnerships
- Voluntary initiatives
- Personal P2 plans
- Codes of practice
- Partnerships
- Industry stewardship initiatives
Education
- Education to alter public behaviour and create a societal shift
- Study tours for companies
- P2 symposium
- P2 training for corporate and institutional staff
Characteristics/components of P2/CI tools and strategies
- Geographic boundaries
- Cross fertilization
- Holistic approach
- Thinking “outside the box”
- Paradigm shift
- Flexibility
- Employee participation in generating ideas
- Look for micro or macro solutions, think globally act locally, energy pods
- Inspirational appeal
Design/implementation
- Industrial ecology
- Sectoral pollution prevention plans
- Coordinated, integrated planning among players in a given area
- Awards and recognition
- Positive behaviour is appropriately rewarded
- Integrate reporting with existing programs
- Issue challenges
- Green procurement
- Sectoral source requirements
- Transportation demand management
- Eco-efficient communities initiative
- Effective design
- Recycle, reuse, reduce
- Garbage fair
- Demonstration projects