Showing papers in "Journal of Cleaner Production in 1997"

TL;DR: In this article, industrial ecology is defined as the whole of the materials and energy flows going through the industrial system, from their initial extraction to their inevitable reintegration, sooner or later, into the overall biogeochemical cycles.

TL;DR: In this paper, a range of methods for supporting the creation of exchange networks in new eco-industrial parks are reviewed, and a central recommendation is to respect the self-organizing nature of the process and to focus on setting conditions that enhance that process.

TL;DR: The industrial recycling network as mentioned in this paper integrates the re-use of "former waste" by an inter-company matching of production processes, which helps to reduce material and energy throughput in the economic system to sustainable levels.

TL;DR: The Industrial ecology is a new system for describing and designing sustainable economies as discussed by the authors, which offers guidelines to designers of products and the institutional structures in which production and consumption occur, as well as frameworks for the analysis of complex material and energy flows across economies.

TL;DR: In this paper, four types of industrial ecology activities are distinguished based on organizational sociological concepts, and conclusions are drawn concerning the way in which industrial ecology initiatives can, and should, be stimulated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a framework for the comparative analysis and evaluation of methods used for the practical implementation of industrial ecology in enterprises, including inventory tools, improvement tools, prioritization tools, management tools.

TL;DR: In the EPS system, an analysis of significance and sensitivity has been carried out for several years and as discussed by the authors describes this procedure in ISO terms and generalises it for other types of life-cycle assessments.

TL;DR: Burnside Industrial Park encompasses an area of 1200 hectares with 1300 businesses and approximately 20, 000 people in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia as mentioned in this paper. Although never designed and constructed as a functioning ecosystem, the park contains many of the elements and characteristics of such a system.

TL;DR: A zero-discharge system for the alcohol fermentation industry was developed by recycling distillery waste (stillage) as discussed by the authors, which was able to be recycled as cooking water for the next fermentation after treating it with appropriate separation processes Ultrafiltration with a ceramic membrane played a key role in the separation processes.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of firms in the metal sector (mainly copper and its alloys and some precious metals) in the New England area has led to an understanding of the industrial ecosystem involving and surrounding these firms, and the nature of the material flows in this ecosystem.

TL;DR: In this article, the LCA technique is used to address issues concerning environmental stress caused by forestry, and the results show that motor-manual methods cause considerably lower emissions of CO 2 and NO x computed per cubic metre (solid o.b.) of harvested wood.

TL;DR: In this paper, the goal of zero waste is defined as the goal that all material, liquid, gaseous and energy inputs should be found in the final product, and if an industry tries to find this solution within its own processes, it can never succeed in reaching zero.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that both pollution prevention/cleaner production and waste and material exchange pose the risk of "media shifting" from environmental problems to worker (and sometimes community) health and safety problems.

TL;DR: The concept of an Industrial Ecology (IE) toolbox has been introduced in order to compare strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to the introduction of IE in enterprises and to assist enterprises in the planning and evaluation of IE activities for their operations and products as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Green Management Assessment Tool or GMAT as discussed by the authors was developed by the Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) to measure a facility's response to the ICC's 16 principles of sustainability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors briefly consider some of the significant landscape issues relevant to planning and designing eco-industrial parks, and propose a landscape-aware design of industrial parks based on industrial ecology principles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the causes of waste and emissions in various sectors of industry are investigated, and the implications of these findings for the vision of clean production, for formulating environmental policy concerning cleaner production targets, for the opportunities to assess to what extent the clean production targets have been met, and for the cleaner production assessment.

TL;DR: The ACM SIGIR Test of Time Award recognizes conference papers that have had a longlasting influence on information retrieval research as mentioned in this paper. But the SIGIR Conference has not yet celebrated its 40th anniversary.

TL;DR: The role of purchasing departments in the prevention in the field of hazardous substances (toxics reduction) was studied in this paper, where four medium-sized companies in The Netherlands were interviewed to investigate the extent to which such requirements are met with in practice.

TL;DR: In this article, a computer tool called Environmental Design Industrial Template (EDIT) is developed which can evaluate products in design in terms of their end-of-life-cycle effects and is planned to make suggestions on improvement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the key environmental, human health, performance, economic, and regulatory factors which influence the future of the garment cleaning industry and concluded that water-based cleaning is preferable to dry cleaning from a human and environmental health perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, an inter-institutional effort to enhance continuing engineering education in a company as well as how one company dealt with a new demand for environmental engineering education is described, and a case study illustrates a working educational model and suggests emerging trends related to the incorporation of environmental criteria into business practice.

TL;DR: In this paper, a zero-discharge system in the crystal glass industry in which treated wastewater is directly recycled to the manufacturing process was developed. But, with conventional end-of-pipe technology it is very difficult to meet the enforced effluent standards.

TL;DR: A number of options and recommendations concerned with the need for future revisions of chemical regulations have been discussed during an international Hearing held on 30 October 1996 at the castle of Christiansborg.