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Economic Benefits And Benefits Of Cleaner Production

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economic benefits, added to the environment ones. In addition, the plant staff plans to keep the cleaner production process going, since they have noticed the benefits that cleaner production can bring out. Moreover, the following table include all the environment and economic benefits expected to occur for the plant:
Table2: Predicted benefits of CP options implementation (Li et al., 2015) 3.2 Case of Hangzhou (Guan et al., 2014)
The second case is from Hangzhou city in China. Guan et al. (2014) have made a case comparison of the implementation of cleaner production in two cities (Hangzhou and Guiyang), in order to compare different implementation strategies with their results in each city. However, here we are more concerned about the positive results of implementing cleaner production (that occur in Hangzhou city). Hangzhou has started implementing cleaner production options since 2002. More than 57 thousand cleaner production projects (within more than 2700 enterprises in Hangzhou) have taken place, in the period between 2002 and 2014. Moreover, in Hangzhou, the number of involved cleaner production enterprises has increased from only 5 in 2002 to about 450 per year during the period between 2011 and 2014. Approximately, 0.6 Billion USD is the total annual investment of cleaner production projects in Hangzhou, While the economic benefits are about 0.4 Billion USD annually. In addition, about 450 Thousand tons of standard coal, shape the total amount of energy saved

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