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Data requirements for the Envirometer

In the Envirometer itself, for each individual enviromental data item you can click on the 'i' icon for a short explanation of how to gather and fill in the relevant information.

  • Always fill in data for a well-defined period (one year).
  • For more insight into measures deserving priority, you can also fill in environmental costs.
  • Alongside each data entry box there is space for notes on how you arrived at the data, for future reference.
To fill in the Envirometer you will need the following data on your company or organisation over the past year: It may be the case that not all these items are relevant to your situation, or that you would prefer not to include certain items. 

Energy

  • Electricity consumption (to be found on your supplier's end-of-year statement or otherwise on the monthly bills)
  • Gas consumption (to be found on your supplier's end-of-year statement)
  • Consumption of other energy resources/fuels (purchasing data), e.g. district heating, domestic fuel oil, propane, diesel (for heating or production)

Water and wastewater

  • Water consumption (to be found on your water/energy supplier's end-of-year statement)  
  • Wastewater treatment charge (to be found on the water board's assessment or possibly estimated from annual water consumption)
  • Emptying grease or sludge sumps (bills from sewerage department/collector)

Emissions

Solvents are relevant if more than 10 litres of solvent evaporate annually at your company or organisation, as in the case of printers and home decorators, for example. Coolants are relevant for all organisations operating refrigeration plant and/or air conditioning systems containing over 10 kg of coolant.

  • VOC registration = solvent consumption (from purchasing invoices for solvent-containing products, or from your supplier's solvent registry)
  • Coolant refills (specified on your maintenance contractor's servicing note)

Commercial waste

Commercial waste is the term used for all kinds of non-hazardous waste, such as unsorted company waste, paper/cardboard, plastics, glass, wood, green waste and so on. Depending on the type of contract you have and how collection is organised, you will need the following data:

  • With standard collection frequency: the volume of skips and the frequency with which they are emptied OR if this is provided by the collecting agency, invoices specifying the weight of the waste
  • With collection on demand: invoices specifying m3 or kg collected 
With on-demand collection and/or of the waste is weighed, you can ask your waste collector(s) for an annual specification. 

Hazardous waste

Categories include oil-contaminated waste, paint-containing waste, ink-containing waste, solvent-containing waste, cleaning rags, spray cans, fluorescent lighting units, acumulators/batteries, certified hospital waste, etc.

  • Weight and cost of the waste (to be found on the waste collector's invoices)
  • If you have more than five bills for hazardous waste a year, it is worth asking your waste collectort(s) for an annual specification.
Hazardous waste is often collected at irregular intervals and so may fluctuate widely in volume and weight from year to year. 

Mobile machinery

  • Fuel consumption of mobile machinery (vehicles used on-site like fork-lift trucks, reachstackers, vans, etc. as well as earth-moving machinery like loaders and excavators, mowers, sweepers and tractors) (bills for petrol, diesel or LPG supplies)

Commuting

  • Kilometres commuted annually, broken down into cars, vans, public transport and bicycle (possible sources: travel cost reimbursement or estimate based on number of employees, number coming by car/van, estimated average staff commuting distance)

Business travel

  • Kilometres travelled annually for business purposes by car or van OR annual fuel consumption (petrol, diesel and/or LPG) of the vehicles involved (possible sources: filling station pass records, leasing company statements, fuel costs in company accounts, own odometer readings)

Freight transport

  • Kilometres travelled annually by company trucks to customers or other company branches OR annual fuel consumption of the trucks in question (possible sources: filling station pass records, leasing company statements, fuel costs in company accounts, own odometer readings, annual statements of haulage contractors)
  • Transport contracted out can also be filled in; ask your haulier(s) for an annual specification

Compensation

Compensation means you offset part of the environmental impact of your operations (the CO2 emissions, which contribute to the greenhouse effect) by having forest planted or renewable energy projects implemented. This kind of compensation can be entered in the Envirometer by clicking the 'Fine-tuning' tab and selecting 'Compensation' from the sidebar. 

  • Compensation procured, in hectares of forest, tonnes of CO2 or number of CO2 credits 

Procurement

Although the Envirometer can be used to keep track of all kinds of material procurements, it is only paper that is used for calculating environmental impact.

  • Paper (number of packs/pallets/sheets of A4 paper (and possibly A3) plus paper weight (80 or 70 grams))

General organisational data 

These general data are used for calculating performance on the environmental indicators and for correcting Envirometer scores for year-on-year growth or downsizing of your company or organisaton.

  • Floor space and volume of company premises
  • Number of employees in the past year (in full-time employees, FTE)
  • Turnover in the past year (net turnover, pre-tax )
  • Output in the past year (for example, number of vehicles sprayed, number of visitors, number of nursing days, weight of paper processed). If you select a particular sector at the start of your Envirometer session, a suitable unit is suggested for your sector's 'output'.