What you can do

Living Sustainably

Cleaner Production

Where do I start?

Is your workplace up-to-date with best practice in your industry? Adopting a 'Cleaner Production' approach could be the best way of getting good ideas up and running.

What is it all about? What are the benefits?

'Cleaner production' is a business management approach. It involves a change of attitude and rethinking products, services and processes and their impact – a shift in environmental protection from an 'end-of-line' approach where pollution and wastage is managed after it is created, to a 'front-of-process' approach where wastage and pollution is avoided or minimised at the source.

Real benefits

Many companies are already taking up the 'Cleaner Production' challenge – finding opportunities to save energy, water and raw materials, minimise pollution and waste, and at the same reduce costs and increase efficiency.

The results can be ground breaking and can take companies well beyond compliance. By adopting a Cleaner Production approach companies can:

reduce use of energy, water and other natural resources
boost productivity and profitability
improve the quality of output
reduce costs associated with managing wastes and material losses
reduce environmental liability and the risk of non-compliance
create a happier, healthier and safer workplace
gain a greener and healthier company image