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Key Environmental Issues
In order to face the challenges, you have to understand
the key environmental issues of your industry. During
the manufacturing of watches, the following have been
identified as key environmental issues of its manufacturing
operation:
- Emission of exhaust air from soldering
- Evaporation of organic solvent/lube
oil
- Generation of metal dust from cutting
machinery
- Dust emission from machinery
- Toxic exhaust air emission from argon
soldering machinery
- Exhaust emission from vehicles
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Air
Emission
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- Waste water discharge from air scrubber
- Waste water discharge from humidifier
- Spillage of chemicals
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Water
Pollution
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- Generation of waste lube oil
- Generation of tin waste
- Disposal of waste gloves
- Disposal of trim waste
- Disposal of waste parts
- Disposal of rejected products
- Disposal of packaging materials
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Waste
Disposal
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- Noise generated from machinery operation
- Noise emission from workshop
- Noise emission from vehicles
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Noise
Emission
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- Use of electricity for equipments, air
conditioning & lighting
- Use of lube oil for various machinery
- Use of cadmium composition at solder
joints
- Use of lead composition in tin strips
- Use of earplugs and gloves
- Use of chemicals
- Use of lead free solder
- Use of packaging materials
- Fuel consumption by vehicles
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Resource
Consumption
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