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The Authority's
activities potentially have a great influence on the environment.
Most obviously, construction of new housing blocks or demolition and
clearance of old buildings could cause unwelcome noise and dust and
also result in waste materials needing disposal. Less obviously, our
office based functions, such as finance & accounting, personnel
and other corporate services, as well as planning & design functions,
also consume resources such as energy and paper. Furthermore our estate
management business involves waste collection, cleansing and building
maintenance.
The environmental aspects of our main business functions are summarised
in the following table:
Life-Cycle Stages of HA Business & Their
Significant Environmental Aspects

Our EMS, which is the main way in which we collate and analyse data
on our environmental performance and control our potential impacts,
was described in the previous section. The results of our efforts
over the past year are described in the following section.
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