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The Anthrosphere
Published in Stanley E. Manahan, Environmental Chemistry, 2022
One alternative to the regulatory approach to pollution control is provided in part by the practice of industrial ecology, which in its modern form can be traced to a 1989 article by Frosch and Gallopoulos.1 Industrial ecology views industrial systems as interacting to mutual advantage in a way that minimizes environmental and sustainability impacts and that processes materials and energy with maximum efficiency and minimum waste in a manner analogous to the metabolism of matter and energy in natural ecosystems. Starting in the mid-1990s, green chemistry has developed as a dynamic and rapidly developing discipline dealing with the sustainable practice of chemistry. Green chemistry and industrial ecology are closely related and one cannot be practiced effectively without the other. This chapter addresses green chemistry and industrial ecology as essential disciplines in maintaining environmental quality.
The Anthrosphere: Industrial Ecology and Green Chemistry
Published in Stanley Manahan, Environmental Chemistry, 2017
One alternative to the regulatory approach to pollution control is provided in part by the practice of industrial ecology, which in its modern form can be traced to a 1989 article by Frosch and Gallopoulos.1 Industrial ecology views industrial systems as interacting to mutual advantage in a way that minimizes environmental and sustainability impacts and that processes materials and energy with maximum efficiency and minimum waste in a manner analogous to the metabolism of matter and energy in natural ecosystems. Starting in the mid-1990s, green chemistry has developed as a dynamic and rapidly developing discipline dealing with the sustainable practice of chemistry. Green chemistry and industrial ecology are closely related and one cannot be practiced effectively without the other. This chapter addresses green chemistry and industrial ecology as essential disciplines in maintaining environmental quality.
The Metabolism of the City
Published in Steffen Lehmann, Robert Crocker, Designing for Zero Waste, 2013
The manufacturing industry plays an important role in the transition to more sustainable cities. ‘Industrial ecology’ is a vision of industrial organization that applies the lessons of natural ecosystems to environmental management, where wastes from one process become inputs and opportunities for another (Robins and Kumar, 1999). An ‘extended responsibility’ means taking a whole life-cycle approach to manufacturing and trade, where producers and retailers adopt an extended sense of responsibility for the social and environmental impacts of their products from ‘cradle to grave’, by ensuring that: raw materials (virgin materials) are sustainably sourced, there is zero pollution during manufacture, and there are programmes for efficient consumption and recycling after use.
Facilitating a transition to a circular economy in construction projects: intermediate theoretical models based on the theory of planned behaviour
Published in Building Research & Information, 2023
Michael Atafo Adabre, Albert P. C. Chan, Amos Darko, Mohammad Reza Hosseini
Currently, cleaner production focuses on cost-effective strategies for environmental improvement, however, this approach could exclude or underestimate less cost-effective strategies that deliver superior environmental outcomes. Such criticisms have partly contributed to the evolution of industrial ecology, which integrates forecasting and backcasting approaches (Van Berkel et al., 1997). Industrial ecology adopts a systemic view of design and manufacturing stages to avoid or reduce environmental impacts attributed to a product’s manufacture, use and disposal. An extension of industrial ecology is the cradle-to-cradle (C2C) concept that seeks to substitute wasteful or harmful toxic materials with natural materials that are decomposable or have an infinite life, however, the C2C concept is technically not justifiable as 100% efficiency in recycling to ensure materials’ extended use cannot be guaranteed. Further, C2C is more focused on the technical aspects of sustainability and less so on the importance of users, communities, and other actors and dynamics in a sociotechnical system (Reike et al., 2018). The circular economy (CE) concept, relying on the basic principles of C2C for material circulation, reuse, recycling and remanufacturing in a closed-loop system for sociotechnical development, emerged to address these shortcomings (Ceschin & Gaziulusoy, 2016; Chauhan et al., 2021; El Haggar, 2007).
Toward the Implementation of Circular Economy Strategies: An Overview of the Current Situation in Mineral Processing
Published in Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, 2022
Luis A. Cisternas, Javier I. Ordóñez, Ricardo I. Jeldres, Rodrigo Serna-Guerrero
The more decisive action was the introduction of environmental management systems (EMS) into the industrial operations, particularly by multinational corporations seated in developed countries. These EMS facilitated to fulfill environmental regulations, detect economic and technical benefits, and guarantee that environmental policies were assumed and followed (Hilson and Nayee 2002). Based on Schiffman et al. (1997) and the modification of Hilson and Nayee (2002), the three essential benefits of implementing EMS in mines are that the personnel are better suited to systematically assess the potential environmental impact in everyday industrial processes, evaluate alternatives, and identify legal requirements and hidden costs. Waste management was the topic more analyzed in the scientific literature in mining and mineral processing in such time period (Figure 4), and it is still today among the most active research topics. However, industrial ecology, cleaner production, and waste management were also analyzed in this period. For example, cleaner production was applied to identify opportunities to reduce the environmental impact and the generation of valuable products from sulfur-containing ultra-fine coals in South Africa (Reddick, Von Blottnitz and Kothuis 2007). Another example is the use of industrial ecology to analyze strategies to reduce the impact of waste from historical sites in Poland and England (Stone 2002; Szczepanski 2003).
Ecological footprint assessment and its reduction for industrial food products
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 2021
Dilawar Husain, Pulkit Garg, Ravi Prakash
The industrial ecology considers the production of finished goods, distribution, and consumption of resources and services including the utilisation of direct energy and waste disposal, etc. In order to evaluate EFfood product, all the resources related to a production system are converted into their equivalent bio productive land that is needed to produce or absorb their impacts in the form of land categories (such as CO2 land, forestland, cropland, built-up land, etc.). The system boundary of the food processing industry is shown in Figure 1. All the resources consumed during the manufacturing of the final products, steps involved in the processing of the food products, waste generation and corresponding transportation are depicted in Figure 1. All the factors influencing the EFfood product and involvement of different types of bio-productive land are shown in Figure 2. The estimation of EFfood product is given by the Equation (1):