A field of study and practice that focuses on how industry can be developed or restructured to reduce environmental burdens throughout the product life cycle (extraction, production, use, and disposal) and encompasses a variety of related areas of research and practice, including:
In applying this perspective, companies seek to shift industrial processes from open loop systems that produce waste materials to closed loop systems where wastes become inputs for new processes.
An example of this term in action is the design of industrial processes with closed loop systems in which the wastes of one industry are the raw materials for another
Adaptive management is an approach towards decision making that is based on making adjustments in the decision making process as and how new information and changes are observed. I...
These are a section of the society defined by the Roper ASW Green Gauge Report as the least interested in “green” or environmental issues and the least likely to take any action on...
“Bio-“ is Greek for life.Bio-based material refers to a product's main constituent consisting of a substance, or substances, originally derived from living organisms. These sub...