DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR POWER IN THE PHILIPPINES… AGREE OR DISAGREE?

" It's very important that we have an effective way to communicate with the public the seriousness of a nuclear accident." - Scott Burnell, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Spokesman

A Profitable and Competitive Industry

DID YOU KNOW?

.. that there is an environmental project by the collaboration of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Department of Trade and Industry( DTI) which seeks to enhance business competitiveness in the global market through environmental management. And that environmental project is known as.. 

EPIC (Environmental Management Programme for Industry Competitiveness).

Green Building

Recycled and recyclable – steel closes the loop on the way toward more sustainable construction.

Manufacturing companies producing cellphones, paints, plastics and other objects are not the only participant encouraged to assess a product life cycle. A product life cycle begins in the acquisition of raw materials, the manufacturing process, its packaging and transportation, its usage, and the end of life. Hence, the end life of the product must be considered in the first place. This will enable the company to become aware of its environmental impact on the planet and human health. This may also allow them to create and develop measures on how to reduce or eliminate them beforehand.

DID YOU KNOW THAT.. even construction companies are considering “green building”.

Industrial Engineers for Cleaner Production

       As I look for topics about cleaner production, I was led to a link which really caught my attention. It contains an article which is about us, Industrial Engineers, and our contribution in promoting cleaner production in the Philippines.  

“UN looks to IEs for cleaner production: Philippine IIE is a partner in 
caring for the environment.”

Cleaner Production Concept

       Cleaner production as explained in the video above is a strategy of minimizing waste through different approaches to help sustain the environment. Waste can be prevented or at least be lessen by improving or modifying production processes, acquiring more efficient equipment, obtaining better technology, using more environmentally friendly materials, reusing materials, making possible by-products, and recycling products. These are just some of the methodologies towards cleaner production.

RESPONSIBLE WAY OF DISPOSING OUR MATERIALS --- REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE

        Some of us are still not consumed about the fact that reducing waste will help solve problems of energy, pollution, as well as jobs because recycling creates more jobs than disposing.

A Brief Introduction to Industrial Ecology

What Is Industrial Ecology (IE)?

       Industrial ecology is a new and innovative strategy for a sustainable industry. Achieving a sustainable industry means meeting a firm’s financial bottom line without compromising the state of its surrounding physical environment. Industrial ecology focuses on the interaction of industrial systems and the ecological systems. In the industrial setting, the process involves designing industrial systems to minimize waste and maximize cycling of materials and energy. As far as possible, production systems, instead of the conventional linear fashion, are closed. This is to prevent the loss of energy or useful materials. Industrial ecology seeks to optimize the total materials cycle from virgin materials to finished material product, and to ultimate disposal

          -- Excerpt from IE FAST FACTS, The Philippines' Portal on Industrial Ecology

The Baker's Way

What is Clean Production?

Clean production is any practice which eliminates at source the use or formation of hazardous substances through the use of non hazardous chemicals in production processes, or through product or process redesign, and thereby prevents releases of hazardous substances into the environment by all routes, directly or indirectly. -BEVERLEY THORPE (June 2009)

      Manufacturers that adhere to be a part of cleaner production program certainly give the company a competitive advantage over others. Through improvement actions, a company can save up to thousands of money or more per year. 

       Here is a site which tells about how a bakery situated in Norway improves its processes, optimizes energy, water, and other resource consumption while reducing their wastes. 
        You may read: 

http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/10/09473.htm

(Image of the Bakery in Norway)

Halvorsens Conditori