Impact On Environment

Results on Impact on Environment:





Land:
Rehabilation of land is important as the land or extraction is near to the natives and it is our responsibility to restore back to original after using their land. This is also been done to prevent erosion from occuring in the land.

Biodiversity:
Impact on the natural environment including the diversity of flora, fauna and their habitats.

Solution: To minimise destruction of the natural habitat, BHP try to choose places with lesser diversity. But if they had to mine areas with diversity, they will cautiously moved the entire habitat to other areas and back to the original when they are done.

Air emissions:
Air pollution always happen.

Solution: Even though emitted air from mining is safe when it is in a remote place and will not damage the air quality, mine workers still have to wear mask as they are the nearest to the gases.

Waste:
Throuh BHP's different activities, their sites generate a variety of wastes,in the form of general and hazardous waste.

Solution: General and hazardous waste is accepted at normal landfills or waste incinerators including papers, timber and domestic wastes. Hazardous waste such as oil, chemical wastes and baghouse dust are not accepted at normal lanfills. The national legislation will decide whether the waste is hazardous or non-hazardous.

-E.g. the slag from our iron in Australia is classified as hazardous waste.

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