TITLE:
Sustainable Industrial Community
AUTHORS:
Hala Omar, Salah El-Haggar
KEYWORDS:
Industrial Waste, Sustainable Industrial Community, Cradle-to-Cradle, Cleaner Production, Eco-Industrial Park, Environmentally Balanced Industrial Complex, Zero Pollution
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Environmental Protection,
Vol.8 No.3,
March
27,
2017
ABSTRACT: Nowadays, the
style of living that significantly depends on consumption of resources and over
consumption patterns, tremendous increase in population, urbanization and
industrialization resulted into generation of huge amounts of industrial
wastes. Many environmental problems are facing industrial areas, especially in
developing countries, due to poor industrial hazardous waste management. In
order to reduce the effect of industrial waste on the environment and to reach
sustainable development, countries have developed and reinforced several
environmental protection laws and regulations. Yet, the waste disposals via
incineration and/or landfilling according to cradle-to-grave concept require
high capital, high running costs and are seen by industries as a barrier for further industrial development. Most
importantly, disposals of waste deplete natural resources causing them to be
unsustainable. Hence, various concepts and strategies have been suggested to
promote industrial sustainability. The aim
of this paper is to present different concepts and practices including
Cradle-to-Cradle approach, Cleaner Production, Industrial Ecology, Eco-Industrial
Park and Environmentally Balanced Industrial Complex described in literature
that help develop a successful sustainable industrial community and reach zero pollution. These concepts are illustrated via
case studies. Moreover, this paper tackles the challenges facing industrial
areas in Egypt and emphasis on the imperative need for considering sustainable
industrial community.