Abstract
Regardless of its size or nature, industry generates waste and is responsible for implementing the
practices of pollution prevention and waste management in its day-to-day operations. Whether it is dirty
water or toxic wastes, industrial pollution is all the same in one way: it reduces a business’s profitability.
Implementation of Cleaner Production (CP) urges environmental, health and safety department
managers, industrial environmental consultants and personnel across all industries to employ a forwardthinking
and tested technology of process improvements that will reduce waste generation, reduce the
resources requirements to manufacture a product, and, most important to the life a business, increase
revenues. Successful implementation of cleaner production improves their productivity, profitability,
competitiveness, environmental compliance and working conditions of shop floor employees with
minimum financial inputs.
This book starts by explaining CP concepts, techniques and strategies. It further gives CP methodologies
and case studies of those industries in which CP was successfully implemented. The authors also usher
you through all sorts of exercises to test your understanding.
I hope the book will encourage all stakeholders to think about what they can do to tackle the rising
generation and inappropriate management of waste. Both producers and consumers of goods much work
on the betterment of waste management. Every organization must strive to have the tools, technologies
and financial resources to adopt CP. All sectors of society need to engage into an integrated life-cycle
management of goods. The more efficient and less wasteful manufacturing and consumption processes
will be, the less pressure there will be on essential resources and the better human health and the
environmental will be protected.
As a fellow veteran production engineer, I encourage you to recognise that this field is changing and
improvements are being made that empower today’s business leader to minimize waste management
generation.
This book can be used as a guide if you wish to adopt CP technologies in your organizations.