Concept of cleaner production in Vojvodina

Strategic guidance based on the concept of cleaner production to improve the ship recycling industry

“…Although the formal definition of CP approves its applicability ''to the processes used in any industry'', practically it finds applicability mainly to manufacturing/ production or service companies (Dodić et al 2010). Glavič and Lukman (2007) further limit its applicability to production activities only, as they define CP as ''a systematically organized approach to production activities, which has positive effects on the environment''.…”

“…These principles distinguish cleaner production from other environmental management strategies. The cleaner production strategy enables production and service companies to reduce their environmental impacts and risks to human beings from toxic materials (Dieleman 2007;Dodić et al 2010;Lopes Silva et al 2013). Besides this, it also helps in increasing their productivity by reducing the wastage of raw materials, energy and other resources, which in turn benefits them financially (Dodić et al 2010;Van Berkel 2000b).…”

“…An incomprehensive literature survey finds several studies suggesting economic benefits of applying cleaner production to production companies in various countries such as Lithuania (Kliopova and Staniskis 2006), Slovenia (Petek and Glaviç 2000), Serbia (Dodić et al 2010), Australia (Van Berkel 2000b), Norway (Kjaerheim 2005), India (Unnikrishnan and Hegde 2007) and Brazil (Severo et al 2017). The questionnaire-based statistical analysis of 125 Chinese companies representing various industries (metal, heavy machinery, petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical, paper, rubber and plastics) also showed a positive impact of cleaner production on the business performance of the companies (Zeng et al 2010).…”

Development of sustainability evaluation model for implementing product service systems

“…The European Union (EU) has established ''the directive on prevention and control of pollution in industry (OPPC),'' making pollution an illegal act in some countries (Dodić et al 2010). Many studies have mentioned the benefits of environmental sustainability to businesses, such as financial benefits, standardization of environmental management procedures for internal operations, saving resources and reducing wastage for corporate management, improving corporate image for marketing purposes, enhancing environmental awareness of suppliers for supplier relations; organizational benefits, human resource related benefits, commercial benefits, communication benefits, and so on (Hillary 2004;Zeng et al 2005;Seiffert 2008).…”

“…Many studies have mentioned the benefits of environmental sustainability to businesses, such as financial benefits, standardization of environmental management procedures for internal operations, saving resources and reducing wastage for corporate management, improving corporate image for marketing purposes, enhancing environmental awareness of suppliers for supplier relations; organizational benefits, human resource related benefits, commercial benefits, communication benefits, and so on (Hillary 2004;Zeng et al 2005;Seiffert 2008). However, if businesses want to reap these benefits, they must be willing to make investments and incur some costs (Dodić et al 2010).…”