About this Manual

The purpose of all Emission Estimation Techniques (EET) Manuals in this series is to assist Australian manufacturing, industrial, and service facilities to report emissions of listed substances to the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI). This Manual describes the procedures and recommended approaches for estimating emissions from facilities engaged in printing, packaging, and publishing activities.

The printing activities covered in this Manual apply to facilities primarily using the following printing methods :

• Rotogravure Packaging, advertising, greeting cards, art books, catalogues, and directories
• Flexography Packaging, advertising newspapers, books, magazines, financial and legal document directories
• Offset Lithography Magazines, catalogues, and directories, newspapers, books, stationery, financial and legal documents, advertising, journals, packaging, food, beverage and aerosol cans
• Letterpress Magazines, catalogues, and directories, newspapers, books, stationery, financial and legal documents, advertising, journals, packaging, food, beverage and aerosol cans
• Screen Signs, electronics, wallpaper, greeting cards, ceramics, decals, banners, plastic bottles

EET MANUAL: Printing, Publishing, and Packaging

HANDBOOK: Printing, Publishing, and Services to Printing

ANZSIC CODE : 241 (including 2411, 2412, 2413), and 242 (including 2421, 2422, 2423)

First published in August 1999
National Pollutant Inventory
Environment Australia

Emission Estimation Techniques Used in the Manuals

Estimates of emissions of NPI-listed substances to air, water and land should be reported for each substance that triggers a threshold. The reporting list and detailed information on thresholds are contained in the NPI Guide at the front of this Industry Handbook. In general, there are four types of emission estimation technique (EET) that may be used to estimate emissions from a facility.

The four types described in the NPI Guide are:

• sampling or direct measurement
• mass balance
• fuel analysis or other engineering calculations
• emission factors