Industrial Pollution Prevention! A Critical Review

Contribution of Pollution Prevention as a Green Supply Chain Practice-A Pilot Empirical Study of the Indian Automobile Manufacturing Sector

“…This is also an indicator of internal consistency reliability of the survey instrument ranging from acceptable to excellent [7]. Accordingly all the eleven variables are retained as there is also a strong support from existing literature in their favour [1], [2], [3], [6], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12] and [14]. …”

Incorporation of environmental impact criteria in the design and operation of chemical processes

“…Until recently, the existing methods gave only qualitative orientation with respect to waste minimisation and pollution prevention (Douglas, 1992;Freeman et al, 1992). During the past five years, some new proposals with the aim to quantify the environmental impact of a chemical process (Bauer and Maciel Filho, 1999) have been presented.…”

Scope for the application of mathematical programming techniques in the synthesis and planning of sustainable processes

“…The first critical point is how to measure the environmental impact of a process/ product through all the stages of its life so this can be explicitly included as an additional criterion to be optimized. As pointed out in the literature (Freeman and Harten, 1992), the lack of accepted metrics to support objective environmental assessments still represents a major limitation in the area. The second aspect, which is strongly linked to the previous one, is how to incorporate these concerns in a modeling framework and effectively solve the resulting formulations by devising efficient algorithms and computer architectures.…”