{"id":512,"date":"2022-09-30T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T22:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/?p=512"},"modified":"2023-02-11T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T20:31:45","slug":"2-5-sustainable-production-and-alternatives-to-the-generation-and-disposal-of-industrial-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/volumesixteen\/2-5-sustainable-production-and-alternatives-to-the-generation-and-disposal-of-industrial-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"2.5 Sustainable Production and Alternatives to the Generation and Disposal of Industrial Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned, the key objectives of the North American PRTR Initiative and the <em>Taking Stock<\/em> report series are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promote greater awareness of and access to PRTR data and information<\/li>\n<li>Improve understanding of the sources and management of pollutants of common interest; and<\/li>\n<li>Support decisions on pollution prevention and sustainable development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This edition of <em>Taking Stock<\/em> presents data and information relative to the chemicals used in industrial processes in North America. Facilities in a wide range of extractive and manufacturing sectors that supply our consumer goods\u2014from petroleum, chemicals and agrochemicals, food, clothing, electronics, and automobiles\u2014generate waste in liquid, solid or sludge form that can be dangerous to human health or the environment. The risk may be present during the processing or use of a substance, or when it is released into the environment\u2014either directly or following its disposal.<\/p>\n<p>This section examines the environmental and human health challenges related to our increasingly unsustainable consumption patterns. While end-of-life issues for products are of increasing concern around the world, the focus of this section is on the \u201cproduce\u201d side of the \u201cproduce-use-dispose\u201d paradigm and how industry can contribute to the societal shift away from these unsustainable patterns by upending traditional approaches to the use, generation, and management of pollutants (<strong>Figure 24<\/strong>). Examples of alternatives are presented in the context of the productive sectors, activities and pollutants discussed in the preceding data analyses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\">\n<p><span class=\"ftitle\">Figure 24.<\/span> Waste Management Hierarchy<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_605\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Figure-24-Waste-Management-Hierarchy.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"Figure-24-Waste-Management-Hierarchy\" data-rl_caption=\"Source: Government of Maine 2019\" title=\"Figure-24-Waste-Management-Hierarchy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-605\" class=\"wp-image-605 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Figure-24-Waste-Management-Hierarchy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Figure-24-Waste-Management-Hierarchy.png 900w, https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Figure-24-Waste-Management-Hierarchy-750x287.png 750w, https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Figure-24-Waste-Management-Hierarchy-768x294.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/dep\/assistance\/whatisp2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Government of Maine 2019: whatisp2.html The P2 Hierarchy<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned, the key objectives of the North American PRTR Initiative and the Taking Stock report series are to: Promote greater awareness of and access to PRTR data and information Improve understanding of the sources and management of pollutants of common interest; and Support decisions on pollution prevention and sustainable development. This edition of Taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volumesixteen","tag-chapter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}