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Clean Technology
Manufacturers may react to:
Legislation is a driving force for industry to clean up manufacturing processes.
Pressure created by the local community and media
Reasons for cleaning up manufacturing/industry include:
promoting positive impacts
ensuring neutral impact or minimizing negative impacts through conserving natural resources
reducing pollution and use of energy
reducing waste of energy and resources
Legislation
Laws considered collectively to address a certain topic.
Incremental solutions
Products which are improved and developed over time leading to new versions and generations.
Radical solutions
Where a completely new product is devised by going back to the roots of a problem and thinking about a solution in a different way.
Can make a great and sudden impact;
They can require the replacement of a whole system.
This can be costly and time consuming where a company maybe in down time
End-of-Pipe Technologies
Technology that is used to reduce pollutants and waste at the end of a process.
System Level Solutions
Solutions that are implemented to deal with the whole system, rather than just components.
Clean Technology
Products, services or processes that reduce waste and require the minimum amount of non-renewable resources.
