A Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) is a publicly accessible database or inventory of chemicals or pollutants released to air, water and soil and transferred off-site for treatment. It brings together information about which chemicals...

Industrial facilities play a major role in environmental consequences as their processes may use large amounts of raw materials and energy, and in return, may release significant amounts of pollutants into the air, water and soil. As part of their...

The purpose of this document was to produce a harmonised list of pollutants that could improve the comparability of PRTR data on a global scale. Providing a list of core pollutants common to most PRTRs enhances comparability for existing PRTRs and...

In the transition towards a non-polluting, resource efficient industry, greater consideration of value chains shows potential to deliver greater overall environmental benefit than less integrated approaches that focus on individual stages, such as...

A Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) is a system to collect and disseminate information on environmental releases and transfers of pollutants from industrial and other facilities. Among the most important applications of PRTRs is their...

The aim of this document is not to make specific recommendations on preferred estimation techniques; rather, it is to provide a catalogue of available techniques to estimate releases (emissions) from diffuse (non-point) sources, and to summarise the...

A growing number of governments seek to adopt an approach based on Best Available Techniques (BAT) as part of the regulatory framework to prevent and control industrial emissions. Providing guidance on BAT-based permitting is, in the short term, a...

Industrial pollution prevention and control policies can achieve significant environmental, financial and human health gains. A growing number of countries use Best Available Techniques (BAT) to set industrial emission levels that are rooted in...

Best Available Techniques (BAT) have emerged as a key policy tool to prevent and control the emission of industrial pollutants, and thus to ensure the protection of human health and the environment. This report presents the first comprehensive...

Best Available techniques (BAT) have emerged as a key policy tool for setting emission limit values and other permit conditions to prevent and control industrial emissions, and thus ensure a high level of human health and environmental protection....

The scope of this document is to identify relevant releases to the environment from the use phase of end-products, to present techniques to quantify the releases, as well as to provide information on how to include these releases into PRTRs. This...

Key aspects of any Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) programme are the estimation techniques used to generate data on releases. Companies (facilities) that report data to a national PRTR generally estimate the data using, for example,...

This document provides information on key elements of a PRTR to national governments that are designing new PRTRs or considering revising an existing PRTR and describes considerations for developing PRTR systems whose data are compatible and can be...

This document provides information on key elements of a PRTR to national governments that are designing new PRTRs or considering revising an existing PRTR and describes considerations for developing PRTR systems whose data are compatible and can be...

The primary reason for the OECD to propose a common list of sectors of economic activities reporting to PRTRs was to increase the comparability of data derived from various existing PRTR systems. Moreover, comparability would be enhanced if newly...

The Resource Compendium provides information about release estimation techniques available in specific OECD countries. Development of the document entailed the collection and collation of information on release estimation techniques (RETs) currently...

Part 2 of the Resource Compendium specifically addresses estimation techniques for releases from diffuse sources, provides guidance and information on what techniques are available and notes the locations of where this information might be found....

The principal objective in the development of the Resource Compendium was to collect information from OECD governments and selected industries on the techniques used (or are expected to be used) to estimate releases from point and diffuse sources and...