EcoProduction and Logistics: Emerging Trends and Business Practices

Environmentally conscious manufacturing is a new business approach which focuses on the most efficient and productive use of raw materials and natural resources in order to minimize footprints on the natural environment. The book aims to provide the state of the art as well as new ideas of the environmental conscious operations management. The contributors present and discuss such fields as: eco-friendly production technologies; recycling, remanufacturing & reuse, waste reduction & management. The scope of topics discussed in this book covers also pollution prevention, energy efficiency, material substitution. The authors describe the problems of environmental management in complex manufacturing systems