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contractor. You can also manage waste for recycling by separating paper, plastic, metals and glass and for
those organizations that are in the food businesses they need to separate food waste for recycling.
Be sure that your business activities do not cause a statutory nuisance like producing smoke, noise, gases,
odor, fumes, accumulating rubbish or light pollution which could affect someone's health. If your business
activities pose an imminent threat to the environment, then notify the relevant enforcing body to take steps
to prevent the damage and if your activities also cause actual environmental damage then you must take a
remedial action to repair the damage. Before directing effluent detergent and waste chemicals into sewage,
you should get permission from relevant body.
Take care of Hazardous substances before throw-outs
The business organization needs to think about the risks posed by chemicals or hazardous substances to the
environment. Hazardous substances include oil, chemicals, pesticides, ozone-depleting substances,
radioactive materials, electrical or electronic equipment solvents and biocides. You must ensure that your
organization is aware about the environmental risks for every hazardous substance which you store, use,
produce or dispose of at work.
If you are in manufacturing business then you must comply with the restriction of the Use of Certain
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