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Cleaner Production Examples in Textile Manufacture

Cleaner Production Examples in Textile Manufacture. John Cumming. Cleaner Production Improvements. Clean Technologies Cultural change. Connect Processes and Outcomes to suit the industrial ecology. Workforce capacity Knowledge and technology Environment Markets.

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Cleaner Production Examples in Textile Manufacture

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  1. Cleaner Production Examplesin Textile Manufacture John Cumming

  2. Cleaner Production Improvements • Clean Technologies • Cultural change

  3. Connect Processes and Outcomes to suit the industrial ecology • Workforce capacity • Knowledge and technology • Environment • Markets

  4. Connect Processes and Outcomes to suit the industrial ecology • Workforce capacity • Knowledge and technology • Environment • Markets

  5. Cleaner Production at Wangaratta

  6. ACS Results overview Water consumption cut by 44% Chemical usage cut by 27% Energy consumption cut by 20% Total savings greater than $1 million

  7. Cleaner Production outcomes Unit of waste per unit of production 253 147 0 SAVINGS $$$$$$$$ COST OF WASTE 1990 2000 2005

  8. WangarattaEnvironmental Issues • Inland situation requires • Waste water reuse dependent on: • Salinity • Toxicity • Colour? • Nutrients

  9. ACS Wastewater • Without treatment 1992 2004 - BOD 206 175 mg/L - TDS 960 415 mg/L - Colour 480 570 ADMI units - pH 5.5 6.8 - Chromium 0.1 0.1 mg/L

  10. Interface Carpets • Market demand • Green Building Code • - 60 Leicester St Carlton • - Melbourne Town Hall redevelopment • - Shire of Nillumbik • Indoor Air Quality requirements • - VOC emissions through life cycle • Waste Take-back requirements • - Fully recyclable products

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