CLEANER PRODUCTION ASSESSMENT OF A PRODUCTION

Cleaner Production assessment of a production process (Brisbane Market)



Cleaner Production assessment of a production process (Brisbane Market)

Introduction

Unlike traditional methods of waste management, cleaner production offers a more holistic approach to waste management, and focuses on the sources and causes of waste, rather than on solutions for processing and recycling. Looking at the picture, firms receive a greater appreciation of the real cost of waste, as well as receive significant financial savings by reducing or eliminating waste at source. Promotion of Cleaner Production - a strategic approach - those industries that perform trade waste is a constructive and active means of reducing and ultimately eliminating the waste trade, and ultimately, improve the environment. Background

This document contains examples of where cleaner production has been successfully applied in trade waste problem, resulting in improved environmental performance, as well as financial savings for businesses. 1 There are strategies to reduce trade waste often, local authorities and water boards identify the need to reduce the load of trade waste entering the municipal sewage treatment plants. This was in response to environmental pressures to improve the quality of wastewater discharges from wastewater treatment plants on the environment. These bodies are under threat of prosecution if they fail to take steps to improve the quality of water discharged from sewage treatment plants (WWTP).

Some contaminants are contained in the trade waste such as heavy metals can inhibit biological processes in wastewater treatment plants thereby reducing the effectiveness of the treatment process and downstream toxins that can accumulate in the food chain. Trade waste with very high organic loads, such as discharged from food processing industry can overload sewage treatment plants, again reducing the overall effectiveness of treatment and may require an increase in the plant prematurely. Other pollutants, such as soluble oils, and complex chemical substances that may be contained in trade waste can pass through wastewater treatment plants affects biological processes and ultimately to the environment. Heavy metals accumulate in sewage sludge, thereby severely limiting the possibility of reuse. In response, local authorities and water boards have taken steps to limit and control the discharge of trade waste. There traditionally are three approaches - mechanisms of control (through the establishment of the discharge limitations and preliminary processing of claims), mechanisms of financing (through the introduction of fees) and motivational mechanisms (through education and information). Type of machinery used and the effort to implement and enforce them depends on the capacity of treatment on treatment plants and nature and amount of industrial pollutants has received. Cleaner Production provides a strategic approach to waste minimization and effluent trading. Rules to limit the concentration and / or total loads of some pollutants adopted sewer have been in use for many years in large municipalities and regional efforts to formulate the field accepted waste trade policies that provide for such limitation. Discharges, and penalties for violating them can be an effective incentive for waste reduction of trade, but it depends on the level ...