2.4

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.*