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Type of organisation
 
Agriculture, forestry and related services
 
Mining and quarrying
 
Manufacture of food products, beverages and tobacco
 
Manufacture of textiles/apparel
 
Manufacture of paper and wood products
 
Manufacture of chemical and petroleum products
 
Manufacture of machinery and equipment
 
Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers
 
Other manufacturing
 
Construction
 
Wholesale trade
 
Transportation
 
Public administration
 
Other
 
 
 
 
No of employees at your organisation
 
1-10
 
11-50
 
50-100
 
100-500
 
500-4999
 
5000+
 
 
 
Your Position in the organisation
 
Manager
 
Chief financial officer (or similar)
 
Chief Executive Officer (or similar)
 
Other
 
 
 
 
How important is environmental sustainability to your organisation?
 
It is extremely unimportant
 
It is unimportant
 
Neutral
 
It is important
 
It is extremely important
 
 
 
Does your current financial management/costing system provide you with the data required to analyse environmental costs accurately?
 
Yes
 
No
 
Do not know
 
 
 
Does your organisation generate and record physical environmental information (such as records of kilograms; litres or kilowatt hours used/produced in the manufacturing process) in respect of the following inputs and outputs (Select all that apply)?
 
Inputs:
 
Raw materials (input materials that become part of an organisation’s final product)
 
Operating materials (input materials that do not become part of the tangible product delivered to a customer)
 
Water used
 
Energy use (e.g., electricity, gas, coal, fuel oil, solar, wind, water)
 
Outputs
 
Products, by-products and packaging (tangible products created by the organisation)
 
Non-Product output
 
Solid waste (non-hazardous waste in solid form, such as waste paper or non-hazardous solid scrap product)
 
Hazardous waste (hazardous waste materials which could be infectious, flammable, toxic or carcinogenic)
 
Waste water (water which also contain contaminants of some kind)
 
Air emissions including radiation and noise
 
Other

 
 
 
Does your organisation generate and record monetary environmental information (such as records of direct costs incurred to dispose waste matter from the manufacturing process) in respect of the following inputs and outputs? (Select all that apply)?
 
Material cost of product outputs(Includes the purchase costs of natural resources such as water and other materials that are converted into products, by-products and packaging.)
 
Material cost of non-product outputs(Includes the purchase costs of energy, water and other materials that become waste and emissions.)
 
Waste and emission control costs (The handling, treatment and disposal of Waste and Emissions; remediation and compensation costs related to environmental damage; and any control-related regulatory compliance costs.)
 
Prevention and other environmental management costs (Includes the costs of preventive environmental management activities such as cleaner production projects. Also includes costs for other environmental management activities such as environmental planning and systems, environmental measurement, environmental communication and any other relevant activities.)
 
Research and development costs (The cost of research and development projects related to environmental issues)
 
Less tangible costs (Includes both internal and external costs related to less tangible issues. Examples include liability, future regulations, productivity, company image, stakeholder relations and externalities.)
 
Other

 
 
 
What is your reason for recording the above listed environmental costs? (Select all that apply)?
 
It will assist the organisation to control costs better
 
It can help innovation in the production process
 
It will help us to comply with present/future environmental legislation
 
It presents a positive image of the company
 
Protecting the environment is the right thing to do
 
Other
 

 
 
 
If you do not record and follow up on environmental costs, why not? (Select all that apply)?
 
The cost of generating the system outweighed the benefits
 
It is just too hard to identify the environmental costs as they are so hidden in other cost accounts
 
There are always other priority issues facing the organisation
 
Too hard to change the computer system to extract these costs
 
Implementation will be difficult due to the training required
 
Other stakeholders (eg government, customers, suppliers) buy-in into such environmental initiatives are low
 
We do not see the benefit to our organisation
 
Other
 

 
 
 
If you could implement a system to record the environmental costs separately, how soon would you like to implement it?
 
Immediately across the entire organisation
 
Immediately on pilot sites first to see the effect on costs
 
Within the next 1-5 years
 
Only when government imposes legislation enforcing such reporting
 
Never
 
Don’t know
 
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