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Benchmarking of environmental performance to demonstrate theachievement of best practice environmental management is acomponent of a new form of licensing of industrialdischarges in Western Australia. The paper describes theapproaches to benchmarking for the critical environmentalissues for an alumina refinery and wastewater treatmentplant. It also describes the lessons learnt from thebenchmarking process on appropriate methods, the benefitsand difficulties in the benchmarking process, and changesthat would assist benchmarking for best practiceenvironmental management.
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Jenkins, B.R., Hine, P.T. Benchmarking for Best Practice Environmental Management. Environ Monit Assess 85, 115–134 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023610201889
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