Cleaner production and profitability: analysis of 134 industrial pollution prevention (P2) project reports

Cagno, Enrico; Trucco, Paolo; Tardini, L.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2003.12.025

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“…For Cagno et al [23], cleaner production is an initiative of environmental protection that the company puts in place with a view to prevention. This initiative is designed to minimize the amount of waste and emissions (negative output), while maximizing production (positive output).…”

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Industrial Ecology and Environmental Lean Management: Lights and Shadows

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Current industrial production is driven by increasing globalization, which has led to a steady increase in production volumes and complexity of products aimed at the pursuit of meeting the needs of customers. In this context, one of the main tools in the management of customer value is Lean Manufacturing or Production, though it is considered primarily as a set of tools to reduce the total cost of the resources needed to achieve such needs. This philosophy has recently been enriched in the literature with case studies that link Lean Management (LM) with the improvement of environmental sustainability. The consequence is an expansion of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM); indeed, CIM, currently, combining and integrating the key business functions (e.g., business, engineering, manufacturing, and information management) with a view of the life cycle, does not highlight the strategic role of the environmental aspects. In order to deal with the increasingly rapid environmental degradation that is reflected in society, in terms of both economy and quality of life, Industrial Ecology (IE) introduced a new paradigm of principles and instruments of analysis and decision support (e.g., Life Cycle Assessment-LCA, Social Life Cycle Assessment -SLCA, Material Flow Account-MFA, etc.) that can be considered as the main basis for integrating the environmental aspects in each strategy, design, production, final product, and end of life management, through the re-engineering of processes and activities towards the development of an eco-industrial OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2014, 6 6363 system. This paper presents the preliminary observations based on a analysis of both theories (LM-IE) and provides a possible assessment of the key factors relevant to their integration in a "lean environmental management", highlighting both positives (lights) and possible barriers (shadows).

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“…The awareness of the society regarding the environmental impact of the industrial activity started growing and spreading rapidly in the early 1960s (Cagno et al 2005). The initial response to tackle the environmental problems arising due to the industrial activities was to control and treat pollutant emissions rather than finding ways to prevent emitting pollutants.…”

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“…The initial response to tackle the environmental problems arising due to the industrial activities was to control and treat pollutant emissions rather than finding ways to prevent emitting pollutants. This strategy was called as the ''end-of-pipe'' approach (Cagno et al 2005). With more research in the field, soon it became clear that pollution prevention is always better than control and cure (Van Berkel 2000b), and environmental impacts must be seen from a product and process design point of view (Cagno et al 2005).…”

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“…This strategy was called as the ''end-of-pipe'' approach (Cagno et al 2005). With more research in the field, soon it became clear that pollution prevention is always better than control and cure (Van Berkel 2000b), and environmental impacts must be seen from a product and process design point of view (Cagno et al 2005). This led to the development of several approaches towards environmental management which include pollution prevention (P2), cleaner production (CP), industrial ecology (IE), life cycle assessment (LCA) and eco-design (Cagno et al 2005;Dieleman 2007).…”

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“…The research carried out by Alkaner et al (2006) also showed that ship recycling can be considered as a production system that supports the recovery, processing and resale of materials and components at the end of a ship's useful life. Another reason to study the concept of CP for its applicability to ship recycling is the fact that it is found beneficial by several authors (Cagno et al 2005;Fresner 1998;López-Gamero et al 2010;Tseng et al 2006;Zeng et al 2010) for improving the competitiveness, financial performance, environmental performance and operational efficiency of production firms.…”

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Cleaner production and profitability: analysis of 134 industrial pollution prevention (P2) project reports

Cited by 92 publications

References 6 publications

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