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Showing papers in "Journal of Cleaner Production in 2004"


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a framework for sustainability indicators as a tool for performance assessment and improvements in the mining and minerals industry, which includes economic, environmental, social and integrated indicators.

918 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the barriers, opportunities and drivers for EMS adoption by the SME sector and identified a range of issues which influence the adoption of formalised EMS.

785 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the differences in project approach and results on a national level, and suggested that Dutch EIP projects are more successful than their US counterparts, mainly attributed to the fact that the US projects are initiated by local and regional governments that see the project as a way to improve the local/regional economy with access to substantial government funds.

386 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the factors influencing the development and sustained operation of regional industrial symbiosis networks and discussed the roles a coordination body can play to alter these factors, and argued that the nature of companies' operations and industrial history in the regions, the extent of peer pressure, the positioning of the coordinating body in the region, and its approach to awareness raising and recruitment have major influence on the progress of the programmes.

340 citations


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TL;DR: The Guitang Group, a Chinese sugar complex, has developed an embryonic eco-industrial development by applying an integrated approach to green supply chain management as mentioned in this paper, which is an emerging concept for the establishment of sustainable industrial development of industrial zones and estates in China.

333 citations


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TL;DR: The Synergy Park, 22 km west of Brisbane, is Australia's first planned eco-industrial park to be built and the planning and development of this eco industrial park was a significant challenge to the developer and public agencies concerned with this project as mentioned in this paper.

292 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the need for effective ways of integrating currently separate management systems for quality management, environmental management and health and safety, and different approaches for integrating and gaining advantages from this integration are reviewed.

243 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the concept of industrial ecology (IE) by considering its application and use in terms of the strategic sustainable development model and show that if IE is used outside the systems model, four risks and difficulties are generated that can lead to suboptimal solutions, problem displacement and problem shifting.

232 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a useful social science analytical framework for investigating regional industrial ecology, and develop a prescriptive approach that can stimulate such industrial ecology Regional industrial ecological systems meet with static and dynamic issues as a result of specific system boundaries of their decision-making levels.

222 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of actors along the chain as well as their interaction is discussed. But the authors focus on the differences between the objectives of the single actors in the chain and the overall chain and illustrate that co-operation is the only way for companies to improve the competitiveness of the chain while reducing environmental burdens.

207 citations


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TL;DR: The results of completed and ongoing research projects in Germany's Rhine-Neckar region indicate that larger regional areas may be more suitable for closing material loops and creating sustainable industrial ecosystems as mentioned in this paper.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors take an historical approach to suggest that comprehensive planning is unlikely to live up to the expectations of its proponents, and derive policy implications for the public planning of industrial symbiosis in a mixed economy.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the current situation in the adaptation and adoption of industrial ecology in Asian Developing Countries (ADCs), and consider the possibilities to develop an eco-industrial development (EID) strategy for these developing countries.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and analyse two case studies that demonstrate that real experiences in improving environmental and economic performance by improving processes and procedures occurred and motivate the company's leadership, suppliers and employees to continue to make additional improvements.

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TL;DR: In this paper, three approaches to the implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) are discussed and compared: OEM Takeback, Pooled Takeback and Third-Party Takeback.

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John Ehrenfeld1
TL;DR: In the 10 years since industrial ecology first became a topic of academic interest, it has grown as a field of inquiry and has produced a community of practice in several sectors including academia, business, and government.

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TL;DR: In this article, an integrated solution is presented, based upon results derived from a pilot-plant scale study, which achieved a 50% decrease in wastewater production from the 3-phase olive oil extraction process.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the credibility of 58 eco-labeling like food schemes and dissected them into the building blocks of the different factors that makes a scheme credible and analyzed the structure of these blocks as well as a literature survey on the perceptions of both the consumers and producers to these schemes.

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TL;DR: In this article, a new life cycle indexing system is proposed, which will facilitate the LCA application in process and product evaluation and decision-making, which is comprised of four important sub-indices or attributes -environment, health and safety (EHS), cost, technical feasibility, and socio-political factors.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a case for the beneficial use of these tools as an example of how to increase productivity through greener (environmentally conservative) production induced by cooperative stakeholder actions.

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TL;DR: In this paper, organisational barriers to effective implementation of CP measures have been identified at eight enterprises of the Hungarian industry and recommendations have been developed to overcome the barriers for the implementation of the CP options.

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TL;DR: In this article, a pilot survey of SMEs in the London area, examining their environmental concerns, constraints to environmental performance improvements, key incentives to caring for the environment, and the role of support initiatives and bodies in promoting best environmental practices in SMEs.

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TL;DR: Waste minimisation can be as successful in the food and drink industry as in other industries often seen as more polluting as discussed by the authors, which reinforces the importance for companies to identify opportunities for source reduction rather than end-of-pipe solutions and the relatively low cost of disposal.

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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of Bio prip, Cellusoft L and Denilite Enzymes on the properties of cotton fabrics are examined in the present work and a comparison between the conventional treatment "chemical treatments" and the enzyme treatment is also reported.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a method called economically extended material flow analysis (EE-MFA), which aims at studying causal relationships between economically motivated human behaviour and resource consumption. But it is not suitable for the case of food production.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore many diverse facets of our current processes and propose ways for societal learning from nature and for applying these lessons to improve the quality of life for humans and for the ecosystem upon which we are all dependent.

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TL;DR: In this paper, two types of GP indicators are developed to help understand the practical concept and executive approaches of GP, using environmental management tools such as life cycle assessment (LCA) and total cost assessment (TCA).

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TL;DR: In this article, two emerging ecological planning approaches, landscape ecology and industrial ecology, are applied here to look at alternative ways of planning industrial parks, and a new concept, " nurtured landscape", is proposed for mediating between the natural ecosystem and the urban/industrial environment.

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TL;DR: The reference installation approach, which has been developed within the preparation framework of the new “multi-pollutant and multi-effects” protocol of the UN/ECE and which follows the CORINAIR nomenclature, is being proposed as an approach for the comprehensive assessment of technological and economic properties of relevant base processes and emission reduction options/techniques as mentioned in this paper.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the kinetics of sonochemical degradation of EDTA (20,000 mg/l) utilizing combination of processes viz., ultrasound + Fenton's reagent and ultrasound + H 2 O 2 at lower and higher frequencies of 40 and 130 KHz was investigated.