Clean Production Technologies for Sustainable Development

摘要

Environment and development are the two sides of the same coin. Advancements in science and technology have accelerated the pace of industrialization. The industrialization is a continuous process and enhances the standard and quality of life of people but leads to environment degradation. Noise, exhaust fumes, wastes of different kinds adversely affects the environment and creates various kinds of health hazards. The industrialization and environment degradation go hand in hand. Since industrialization is the basics of development, it can not be given up. Hands of the clock can not be turned back. The only option left is to control and manage environment degradation. The environment degradation, in fact started with the propagation of human race. Today environment degradation is a world-wide phenomenon and has become concern for control. The process of environment degradation has accelerated with the development of socioeconomic activities, for example agriculture, industrialization, drugs and Pharmaceuticals transport, civil construction including roads and buildings, etc., with growing population, the requirements of food grains and other consumer items increasing greatly, leading to further environment degradation. As long as the assimilation capacity of receiving water system, land, air, etc., is more than the pollution load the importance of environment protection was not critical. But today there are places where rivers are polluted to the extent that they have practically no assimilation capacity due to domestic waste and trade effluents, for example river Ganges at Kanpur, Mithi river at Mumbai. Industrialization is considered as the barometer of civilization. Increasing economic openness, growing economic interdependence and deepening economic integration in the world economy are the result of Globalization. In this never-ending race of making profit today, most of the organizations are forgetting their duties towards environment. Community awareness, people's participation and clean production technologies with sustainable development is must for environmental conservation. Every industrial organization and every citizen should be motivated for achieving clean and green environment. Each state, each nation, each continent, the entire world should adopt clean technologies for production.