Objectives
Environmental degradation is an escalating problem owing to the continual expansion of industrial production and high-levels of consumption. A renewed dedication to a proven strategy to resolve this problem is needed. Cleaner Production is one such strategy which can address this problem. It is a preventive environmental management strategy, which promotes eliminating waste before it is created to systematically reduce overall pollution generation, and improve efficiencies of resource use. The definition of Cleaner Production adopted by UNEP is as follows:
Cleaner Production is the continuous application of an integrated preventive environmental strategy to processes, products, and services to increase overall efficiency, and reduce risks to humans and the environment. Cleaner Production can be applied to the processes used in any industry, to products themselves and to various services provided in society.
The progressive industries of Pakistan have been taking individual steps to solve their environmental problems under the proven Cleaner Production (CP) regime. Many environmental projects have also addressed the issue and contributed towards the improvement of environmental condition of local industries.
Cleaner Production Program (CPP) is an initiative that is focused on consolidation of the environmental and CP related work, done in the different major industrial sectors of Pakistan.
The main objective of CPP is to continue the dissemination of cleaner production solutions, and enabling the industrial units at the sector level to implement the same in a cost effective manner.
The CPP team will be working very closely with the progressive industrial sectors of Pakistan to conclude the cleaner production research for reducing the pollution loads.