Environmental Policy
South Tipperary County Council plays a vital role in providing key services to a population in excess 83,000. The functions and services of the Council touch every citizen of the county in many ways, from the quality of the environment in which we live to our social and economic infrastructure. These services include housing and social development, road, transportation and water services, development incentives and controls, environmental protection, recreation and amenity and corporate affairs and cultural development.
South Tipperary County Council acknowledges and recognises that its operations have an impact on the global and local environment. We are committed to the prevention of pollution and to managing and continually improving our environmental performance by implementing a certified Environmental Management System, EMAS (i.e. the EU standard, Eco Management & Audit Scheme), which provides a framework to evaluate, improve and report our environmental impacts.
It highlights our aims and the principles to which we are working to ensure that we play a part in creating a better envrironment for generations to come. Our Environmental Policy is available by clicking on the link below.(
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Environmental Policy
EMAS
South Tipperary County Council has obtained EMAS certification for the following sites
- Environment Section, Old Museum, Parnell Street, Clonmel, and County Hall, Emmet Street, Clonmel
- Planning Section, County Hall, Emmet Street, Clonmel
- Environmental Laboratory, Clonmel Wastewater Treatment, Plant, Waterford Road, Clonmel
- Donohill Landfill and Civic Amenity Site, Garryshane, Co.Tipperary
- Waller’s Lot, Civic Amenity Site and Transfer Station, Cashel
EMAS uses ISO 14001 (International Standards Organisation) as its management system but goes beyond this by requiring organisations to involve employees at all levels, demonstrate continued compliance to environmental legislation and provide regular information about their environmental performance to the public in the form of the annual EMAS Statement. The EMAS statement is independently checked by an environmental verifier.
Further information on EMAS can be obtained here
Our EMAS can be viewed below( 642 kbs)
EMAS Statement 2008
