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Environmental performance analysis of clean production and end-pipe treatment

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  • 1. Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS, Changchun 130012, China;
    2. Graduate University of Chinese Acadmy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    3. China National Enviromental Monitoring Center, Beijing 10012,China

Received date: 2010-03-02

  Revised date: 2010-08-10

  Online published: 2011-03-20

Abstract

Based on statistics of industrial pollutant yields and discharge quantity in Jilin Province, the non-residual decomposition model was applied to quantify the net amount of environmental benefits of clean production and end-pipe treatment respectively. Environmental performances of end-of-pipe and pollution prevention strategies were further analyzed to explore an appropriate way of improving regional industrial ecological transition. The results showed that industrial symbiosis did not exert a positive effect on environment improvement. Technical factor promoted environmental performance improvement in clean production, while both technical factor and scale factor did in end-pipe treatment. Clean production was superior to end-pipe treatment in pollution volume reduction, which implied that prevention strategy dominated over end-of-pipe strategy, but the improvement of clean production tended to slow down. It is necessary to construct a proper industrial ecological system for the realization of environmental goals.

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GAO Ying-chun, TONG Lian-jun, MA Yan-ji, LI Ming-sheng . Environmental performance analysis of clean production and end-pipe treatment[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 2011 , 30(3) : 505 -512 . DOI: 10.11821/yj2011030011

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