Showing papers in "Journal of Cleaner Production in 2001"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a new tool for promoting business sustainability called indicators of sustainable production, which is defined by the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

TL;DR: The adequacy and feasibility of methods recommended for allocation by the current international standard on life cycle inventory analysis (LCI) are reviewed in this article, based on the view that an LCI should provide information on the environmental consequences of manipulating technological systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify the life cycle environmental benefits achieved by incorporating remanufacturing into a product system, based on a study of Xerox photocopiers in Australia.

TL;DR: It is concluded that environmental data, once normalised, should be used in a diversity of indicators that are tailored to the information needs of the data users and that, as long as normalisation of data is kept separate from aggregation and standardisation, many different indicators can be developed based on a comparatively small dataset.

TL;DR: In this article, the industrial ecosystem analogy includes the four ecosystem principles of roundput, diversity, locality and gradual change, and the industrial system operates through different principles of system development than the ecosystem.

TL;DR: The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts Lowell has developed a tool to enable companies to evaluate the effectiveness of sustainability indicator systems as mentioned in this paper, which includes a framework that consists of five levels for categorizing existing indicators relative to the basic principles of sustainability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an approach developed at the interface between thermodynamics systems ecology and agricultural systems to assess the efficiency of a complex agricultural system, a farm in the Chianti area.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was conducted to analyze the current Environmental Management System (EMS), or Green Manufacturing (GM), practices in Hong Kong, focusing on the investigation of: (i) the critical factors that most companies have considered in implementing the GM or EMS; (ii) the benefits that the companies have targeted in implementing GM/EMS; and (iii) the business activities that companies have carried out in striving for the targeted benefits.

TL;DR: The CLEANER (Combining Lower Emissions And Networked Energy Recovery) production design strategy was developed by Solutia, Inc. as discussed by the authors, which combines several systems analysis tools with the process integration design tools.

TL;DR: In this article, the main research question of the study was as follows: What opportunities for upgrading material efficiency and waste minimisation can be found in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the need to integrate different approaches and tools for developing sustainable tourism destinations and the role which Cleaner Production plays in terms of developing sustainable tourist destinations.

TL;DR: An improved chrome syntan with more than 90% uptake of chrome has been developed in this paper, which can be applied directly to delimed pelts thus eliminating the conventional pickling stage in the leather processing.

TL;DR: In this article, a measurement of corporate environmental performance, and its application to the analysis of efficiency in the petroleum firms is presented, where the authors suggest a framework called "Gscore" that consists of five categories, namely general environmental management, input, process, output, and outcome.

TL;DR: In this article, a decision-making case study concerning the investment and adoption of environmentally conscious waste treatment technology in a government supported agency is presented, where data envelopment analysis, and some of its extensions, are used to evaluate the technologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a modified version of QFD is developed and applied to determine the emissions which need to be analyzed further for environmental performance improvement, with consideration given to environmental impact potential and cost budget.

TL;DR: In this article, the use of ultrasound has been used to improve the cleanliness of leather production for each stage of leather processing, showing that ultrasound has the added advantages of improving the process efficiency, reducing the process time and improving the quality of leather produced.

TL;DR: The East Anglian Waste Minimisation in the Food and Drink Industry Project has demonstrated that significant amounts of food-grade material are rejected from the production line for their unsatisfactory quality, whether visual, physical, microbiological or compositional (chemical or biochemical) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a decision support methodology for multi-attribute analysis of ISO 14001 implementation which involves developing a framework of benefits and costs and structuring them hierarchically for the successive use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a life cycle assessment of a typical ceramic three-way catalytic converter manufactured for a Swedish passenger car is performed, and the environmental impacts occurring in the life cycle of a catalytic converter are compared with the environmental benefits assessed throughout an average service lifetime.

TL;DR: In this article, the decomposition of EDTA in a pilot-plant flow-through system simulating an alkaline (pH 10-11) hydrogen peroxide bleaching environment was studied.

TL;DR: The application of DEA and DOMIFFECT to an industrial complex comprising 16 different industries shows the identification of ‘hot spots’ — units that pose the greatest risk — in turn forewarning the industries concerned and enabling them to prioritize and augment accident-prevention steps.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of pollution prevention and waste minimization in the North American gold mining industry is presented, where the authors focus on the two most environmentally problematic areas in the industry, namely cyanidation and acid mine drainage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on efficiency gains that voluntary environmental initiatives may achieve within the firm and suggest at least three generic strategies for VOLUME 7, 2019 VOLUME 6, 2019 voluntary environmental initiative, challenging outdated organizational routines, creating opportunities for differentiation or complementing firms' resource investment trajectories.

TL;DR: In this article, a cost-benefit analysis based on capital and operating costs, BOD reduction efficiencies, and worker health risk factors indicated that a modified biological trickling filter was the best available pretreatment technology for squid processing wastewater.

TL;DR: In this paper, a short-term preservation technique using silica gel has been studied and standardized, and the possibility of using Silica gel in place of salt as a curing agent alone and in combination with a suitable biocide was studied at an ambient temperature of 31°C.

TL;DR: The PHASETS approach for information management and data quality control is independent of data format but relies on organisational commitment, for authorisation and for supplying the necessary competence needed to maintain the quality routines.

TL;DR: In this article, the efficiency of voluntary approaches is analyzed in three different ways: (1) Voluntary approaches as a bargaining process over abatement levels; (2) VOLUME 7, 2019: Voluntary approach as a way to diminish informational asymmetries; and (3) VAs as a voluntary over-compliance mechanism.

TL;DR: The extreme of the quality indicator WJ was determined as a measure of the difference between the quantity of chromic waste introduced into the process and that obtained from it in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study on refrigerator recycling policy in the Netherlands is discussed, where decision tools based on systems modelling are proposed to improve policy making, to increase effectiveness of policy making.