Abstract: Environmental management is a very crucial part of human well-being that needs to be deeply considered. This introductory chapter addresses why industrial environmental management is important. Resource efficiency reflects the understanding that current, global, economic growth, and development cannot be sustained with the current manufacturing, production, and consumption patterns. The concept of Zero Discharge or Zero Emissions is the key to sustainable development but is by itself a subset of industrial ecology. One critical component of the industrial ecology paradigm is dematerialization. Dematerialization means using less material to make products that perform the same function as predecessors. During the transition to Zero Emissions, another early need will be for companies to fill the “decomposer niche,” a term for a specialized form of recycling. The work of decomposers also can be visualized as investment recovery.
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-02-26
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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