Cleaner Production is preventive, company specific environmental protection to minimize waste and emissions and maximize product output. By analysing the flow of materials and energy in a company, one tries to identify options to minimize waste and emissions out of industrial processes. Improvments of organisation and technology shall help to make best possible use of materials and energy and avoid waste, waste water generation, and gaseous emissions, but also waste heat and noise. Examples for cleaner production options are: Documentation of consumption, use of indicators and controlling, substitution of raw materials and auxiliary materials (especially renewable materials and energy), increase of useful life of auxiliary materials and process liquids, improved control and automatisation, reuse of waste, new, low waste processes and technologies.

On of the first European initiatives in Cleaner Production was started in Austria in 1992 by the BMVIT (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie). This resulted in two initiatives: Prepare and Ecoprofit. In Germany, 1999 the initiative PIUS: Produktionsintegrierter Umweltschutz was founded. UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) since 1994 operates the so called National Cleaner Production Center Programm with centres in Central America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

See also

• Waste minimisation
• Pollution prevention
• Energy conservation
• Sustainability
• Environmental management

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External links

• UNIDO NCPC Programme, including lessons learned, and contact to National Cleaner Production Centers
• Pollution prevention in China
• Cleaner Production by sectors