Too many environmental aspects

Answer:

There are industries that has a lot of environmental aspects, however I think the list of 500+ aspects is rather too long. The best way to start is to go process by process, dismantle the processes to activities and determine what are the inputs and outputs of the activities and how they impact the environment.

The company may theoretically have 500+ aspect but it doesn't mean that they are all significant, you should go through your existing aspect list and see what aspects were graded as significant and can be downgraded to insignificant and therefore don't need operational controls. Another way to decrease the number of aspects is to group them, for example, you may use different types of chemicals in your processes but if they all require the same operational control you can simply call them "chemicals" without separating each of them as an aspect.

Here are some articles that may help you:
- Environmental aspects in the manufacturing sector https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2015/06/22/environmental-aspects-in-the-manufacturing-sector/
- Catalogue of environmental aspects https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/catalogue-of-environmental-aspects/