How can manufacturing industries employ cleaner technology mechanisms to improve their production?
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There really would have to be a push from the communities, and pressure from the government to change the way businesses do thier works. They also will have to start being held responsible for the environment and being fined when they break the rules.
It would also help if more technologies would be developed.
In places that emit smoke that contains sulfur dioxide, such as coal power plants, lime scrubbers are used to remove this acid-rain causing chemical from the air. However, even after the Clean Air Act has been amended, if a smokestack is tall enough, it is often not required to have scrubbers installed. This law could easily be changed.
Another problem is Carbon Dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. Instead of emitting so much carbon dioxide from many industrial processes, we could develop and use the technology of carbon sequestration, where the carbon is captured.
Another greenhouse gas is methane, emitted from organic materials such as biomass. If this is being emitted from a process, it can be very cost effective to capture the methane and burn it for heating or energy.
The could start with things as simple as changing the light bulbs in the corporate suite to CFL's and work forward from their. I suspect these changes will only become possible when a real cost reduction is shown to exist or they are forced by regulations.
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