PRTRs benefit industry and eco-innovation. PRTRs benefit both management and workers, through stimulating improved environmental management. For facilities, the exercise of monitoring or estimating pollution levels, as well as their mandatory publication, can encourage efforts to improve efficiency and reduce pollution levels and associated costs. The existence of a PRTR can serve as a major driving force for pollution reduction and eco-innovation throughout many sectors of the economy.
PRTRs benefit industry, management and workers by:
- Stimulating efforts to improve environmental management, efficiency and reduce pollution levels and associated costs for facilities.
- Serving as a major driving force for pollution reduction and eco-innovation throughout many sectors of the economy.
- Helping to identify potential sectors and facilities that may be starting points or priorities for the introduction of technologies for cleaner production, eco-innovation and synergistic processes.
- Enabling similar industries to benchmark their environmental performance with other companies in the sector and to reduce releases, thereby saving money.