EVALUATING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF PRODUCTION IN TERMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSION

Abstract

The most significant element of the sustainable system depends on their own limits. For instance, Water is the most crucial one of all, since it’s a significant input for essentially every industrial production and manufacturing step. This situation symbolizes that there is a limit to the amount of location, water, energy sources and all sources, input elements of the system supported by the world. The sustainability of materials, natural sources are vital needs for the households. What households consume today will not be enough for the next generation. If a product is not used up and throws away rapidly, the consumer needs a new one, and so there are requirements to produce with raw materials and resources again. If the good does not have the capability of being recycled, manufacturers will give damages, harmful to the environmental location. The term “water, energy footprint” and “carbon footprint” is put forward to measure the total volume of carbon dioxide emission and also natural water and energy resources used for manufacturing processes, or used by an individual or a community. All the activities and requirements of the population are caused greenhouse gasses emission. These concepts and results induce the climate change of the world. Regarding to the main subject which is defined in the above, the aim of this research is to investigate some developments which decrease the amount of waste in the industrial production stages and at the end of lifecycle time of products. The purpose of this study is to present a general review of the sustainability literature to decrease the amount of waste and to evaluate the environmental oriented production and consumption by SWOT Analysis; This research involves main concepts of environmental dimension of sustainability that aims to declare the significant of the carbon and water footprint for the ecological life.

 

Keywords

• climate change,ecological life,environmental sustainability,footprint,swot analysis

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