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This text provides approaches and methodologies for implementing pollution prevention (P2) and waste minimization programmes to reduce manufacturing operational costs significantly. It focuses on reducing manufacturing and environmental compliance costs by instituting feedstock substitution, improved operational schemes, recycling and by-product recovery, waste minimization, and energy efficiency policies, and offers project cost accounting tools that assist in evaluating money-saving P2 options.
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This reference source of ideas and approaches to pollution prevention provides industry-specific suggestions, tables and matrixes, step-wise procedures for determining the economic viability of pollution prevention projects, and plans for implementing in-plant assessments that can identify cost savings as well as pollution reduction measures. Coverage includes management of hazardous chemicals, the economics of prevention, the pollution prevention audit, and practices in the chemical process, petroleum refining, and metallurgical industries. Many industry examples and case studies are based on the author's first-hand experiences. Cheremisinoff is principal of a firm specializing in environmental management consulting. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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