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TABLE 6.3
Applications for Financial Entities (Banks and Insurance Companies)

Application Example Optional element

Planning of new plants or Waste incineration, land fill, cracker Possible accidents
changes
New insurance of existing plant Waste incineration, land fill, cracker Possible accidents

Business strategic planning Future scenario assessment Possible eco-
efficiency

6.6.2 FINANCIAL ENTITIES
The possible applications for financial entities (banks and insurance companies) are
presented in Table 6.3. Main applications are the assessment of risk from new plants
or changes in existing ones, and the respective insurance for plants as well as the
evaluation of strategic business plans. Important optional elements are accident
simulations and questions of eco-efficiency.

6.6.3 PRODUCTION AND OTHER SERVICE COMPANIES
Table 6.4 represents the many possible applications for production and other
service companies. Many of the applications proposed in this table could interest
companies using the developed methodological framework. Especially important
are the integrated end-of-life management and parallel optimization of the life-
cycle and problem setting from an environmental point of view. Furthermore, all
the questions related to chain responsibility with the assessment of supplier and
waste treatment companies and their technologies are important. The latter
includes the evaluation of accident risks with regard to processes like overseas
petroleum transport, for which several big companies were declared responsible
in recent years.
In addition to these companies, the methodological framework is certainly rel-
evant for the waste treatment sector that wants to document improvement of the
environmental profile to the public. Moreover, these companies would probably be
interested in gaining the confidence of the public concerning new plants or changes
in the overall waste management plan. The developed methodology can assist greatly
in this task by generating an important amount of quite objective, relevant informa-
tion that should allow all interested parties to find a convincing solution.

6.6.4 CONSUMERS AND SOCIETY IN GENERAL
The possible applications for consumers and society in general are shown in Table
6.5. The main application consists in education and communication as potential
common ground for discussion about environmental damage estimations due to

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