White Papers

These studies address a range of subjects and delineate best in class solutions, to help you make informed decisions at all levels of your enterprise.

At Advanced Environmental Solutions, we strive to understand your organization’s enterprise wide needs, not just the areas that we service, so we have aimed at a broad range of topics that can positively affect the overall health of your organization. These white papers cover a variety of topics that can help managers and stakeholders in public, commercial and non-profit enterprises o make informed and confident decisions:

• EHS Hazardous Materials Contingency Plan. This is the California State University, Fullerton Emergency Management Plan that established the framework for campus response to emergency situations.
• Sustainability: McKinsey Global Survey. Demonstrates how companies are managing sustainability to improve processes, pursue growth, and add value to their companies.
• Creating Public Value. Scholars from the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School discuss strategy for building public value in the government sector.
• Investing in Wastewater Treatment Upgrades: Boosting 3P’s. Delineates how wastewater treatment plant upgrades can increase treatment efficiency, allowing the community to accommodate industrial growth without the high cost of plant expansion.
• Improving Company Innovation. A Mind Matters Technologies paper that offers ways to make any organization more innovative and competitive.
• Site Characterization and Water Sampling Guidance. Summarizes the objectives, design and processes of comprehensive contamination warning system (CWS) for drinking water under a grant from the USEPA.
• Leaking UST Threat to Public Health and the Environment. This report details the threats to public health from leaking underground storage tanks (UST) and key facts on federal and state UST programs.
• Electronics Disposal Efficiency. The Green Grid proposes a new metric – electronics disposal efficiency (EDE) to increase industry awareness regarding the responsible disposal of IT assets.
• Security Considerations in Transportation Planning. The USF Center for Urban Transportation Research explores the implications of enhanced security concerns throughout the US.
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. An Aberdeen Group survey of IT professionals focusing on the plans and processes that organizations adopt for continued operations and recovery in case of a disaster.
• Innovative Problem-solving. A McKinsey Quarterly paper defining five routes to solving difficult problems by looking through multiple lenses,
• Dakota Sustainability Dashboard. An interesting perspective for successful EHS and carbon management programs from an IS and IT vantage point.
• Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Assessment. A review of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Environmental Impacts and the renewable fuel standard by The Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• The Challenge of Removing Surface (Free-Floating) Oil. Discusses innovative and simpler ways to tackle the problem of oily water faced by businesses and industries
• ISO Focus. An authoritative and interesting document that enumerates how ISO contributes to sustainability.
• Protocol for Compliance Audits of Facilities. The EPA’s protocol for a systematic, documented, periodic, review of operations and practices of certain facilities related to meeting environmental requirements.
• Sustainability Goals that Make an Impact. Explores the link between goal-setting, environmental and financial performance and stakeholder recognition, making the case for tangible sustainability goals.
• Protocol for Conducting The Real Cost Of Water. Shows how big savings are available to companies that look beyond their utility bills and understand the broader economic costs of their water consumption.
• Xerox Sustainability Commitment. Describes the Triple Bottom Line at Xerox, which takes into account environmental and social performance in addition to financial performance.
• Sandia Perspectives Report. Authoritative and well developed perspectives on energy policy and how it affects security, economics and the environment.
• Converting Overhead Utilities to Underground. An excellent discussion of how the issues of public safety and quality-of-life are leading utilities and municipalities to converting overhead lines to underground.
• OSHA Illness and Injury Prevention. Discusses proactive injury and illness prevention programs that find and fix workplace hazards before workers are hurt.
• Oil Water Separators. An interesting treatise that describes the Best Practices approach to maintaining and managing Oil Water Separators.
• Emergency Response Planning for Hazardous Materials. Provides information and procedures on the OSHA requirements for emergency response and control of incidents involving hazardous material.
• Air Sampling and VOC’s. A technical and detailed white paper that discusses air sampling and analysis of volatile organic compounds via solid phase micro-extraction.
• BMP for Firing Range Lead Management. A USEPA manual that provides useful general information to shooting range owners and operators.
• Alternative Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems. Describes the alternative technologies that have been developed for situations where conventional systems are not appropriate.
• Embracing Sustainability. Delineates a way to put sustainability into the right strategic context, and outlines tactics that can be put into effect for green packaging.
• Shipping Hazardous Materials. Highlights the principal regulations as well as an overview of shipping hazardous materials in a manner that’s safe and compliant.
• Radioactive Waste Management Applications. Discusses GoldSim – software that is well-suited for radioactive waste management facilities.
• SPCC Rule. This encapsulates the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 40CFR Part 112 Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Rule.