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Universidad de Antioquia Facultad de Ingeniera Ingles III By: Jonathan Alexander Gaviria Gmez Professor: Juan Camilo Rodrguez

Essay English Topic: Cleaner production. Currently, the productive systems are wasting materials, water, energy, generating residues and toxic substances that nature only cannot assimilate or the process to eliminate them requires a long time. People just care about to produce and to consume, without stopping to look the sustainability of natural resources. The production is excessive without foreseeing that the planet can recover the natural resources. Nowadays, the emphasis is in the environmental awareness and care for the planet, the companies are required to generate alternatives that eliminate the generation of residues at their lowest point, such as those that occur in production processes, products and services. Its here where the Cleaner production arrives as an alternative to solve this problem and which will the point of discuss in this essay. The Cleaner Production is an approach that has been proposed to think how to produce goods and services and then it suggests alternatives that improve the productive processes with a minimal environment impact. The cleaner production takes into account three aspects: in the productive processes, the cleaner production approach involves the conservation of raw materials and energy, the elimination of dangerous inputs, and to decrease the output of toxicity waste. In the development and design of product, cleaner production involves the reduction of negative impacts since raw material extraction to ultimate disposal. And in the service, the Cleaner Production incorporates environmental considerations into the design and delivery of services. In other words, the Cleaner Production is a business strategy that its focused in the prevention and the efficient management of the resources and thus to reduce the risks to humans and environment. Before continuing, we have to answer the following question, what are the wastes and what are the emissions? The wastes and emissions are materials that havent been processed in products or in raw materials to produce goods. The wastes are

materials such as: solid, liquids and gases that are emitted to air, water, or land, as well as the noise and the residual heat. As mentioned previously, involves a hard task for engineering, which look to minimize the wastes and emissions, and to achieve this, engineers should increase the grade of utilization of materials and the energy used in the production, i.e. its a challenge, the increment of grade utilization and the same time reduction in the environment impact. Until now, we only have been working in to correct the emission of waste now existing, e.g. the treatment of residual waters and the incineration of wastes. i.e. only the companies are looking to solve the final part of the production process, it is noted end of pipe and its characterize to add cost to the companies. In contrast, the Cleaner Production has changed the traditional method of eliminating pollution. Now the industry seeks to prevent pollution, using raw materials, water, energy and resources in a more efficient manner. The differences between "end of pipe" and cleaner production are that the first one focuses on eliminating wastes and the second one seeks the root of the contamination. The old school thinks that environmental protection consisted of only complying with rules and regulations. As mentioned before, cleaner production is more efficient and is considered a better practice than the "end of pipe" process. Because, the cleaner production begins with the action and not by the re-action; in the protection of the environment is concern of all and it isnt only a question by experts; cleaner production is an approach that treats to make techniques of production to more sustainable development and it isnt the result of a paradigm of production of long time ago, when the environmental problems were not known. Finally, the cleaner production is challenging for that companies change their minds and they adopt this philosophy. Moreover, the innovative companies of the world are showing the significant benefits obtained in the optimization of processes, increased productivity and the importance that is environmental responsibility. References ONUDI. Manual de produccin ms limpia. Introduccin a la produccin ms limpia.[online] disponible en: http://www.unido.org/fileadmin/user_media/Services/Environmental_Management/ CP_ToolKit_spanish/PR-Volume_01/1-Textbook.pdf Consultado 12 de agosto de 2013

Ensayo de ingles Tema produccin ms limpia En los sistemas productivos actuales se despilfarra materiales, agua, energa, se generan y emiten desperdicios y sustancias toxicas que la naturaleza por s sola no puede asimilar o que el proceso para ello requiere de un largo tiempo. Las personas se preocupan por producir y consumir, sin detenerse a mirar la sostenibilidad de los recursos naturales. Se produce desmedidamente haciendo uso de los recursos naturales sin prever que el planeta pueda recuperarlos. En la actualidad, se viene resaltando la conciencia ambiental y el cuidado por del planeta, se pide buscar alternativas que eliminen al mximo la generacin de residuos, aquellos como los que se producen en los procesos productivos, los productos y servicios. Es aqu donde aparece la produccin ms limpia como una alternativa para esta problemtica y el cual ser el tema a tratar en este ensayo. La produccin ms limpia es un enfoque que propone pensar como se viene produciendo los bienes y servicios para luego proponer alternativas que mejoren su obtencin con un mnimo impacto ambiental. La produccin ms limpia tiene en cuenta tres aspectos: en los procesos productivos, la produccin ms limpia aborda el ahorro de materias primas y energa, la eliminacin de insumos peligrosos y disminuir la emisin de desechos txicos. En el desarrollo y diseo del producto, la Produccin Ms Limpia aborda la reduccin de impactos negativos desde la extraccin de la materia prima hasta la disposicin final. Y en los servicios, la Produccin Ms Limpia aborda la incorporacin de consideraciones ambientales en el diseo y entrega de los servicios. En otras palabras, la produccin ms limpia es una estrategia empresarial que se enfoca en la prevencin y la administracin eficiente de los recursos con el fin de reducir los riesgos para los seres humanos y el medio ambiente. Antes de continuar, hay que responder la siguiente pregunta que son los desechos y que son las emisiones? Los desechos y las emisiones son materiales que no se han transformado en productos o en materias primas para elaborar un producto. Estos desechos incluyen materiales como: slidos, lquidos y gaseosos que se emiten al aire, agua o tierra, as como el ruido y el calor residual. Lo anterior implica una tarea ardua para el ingeniero quien busca minimizar los desechos y las emisiones, aumentando el grado de utilizacin de los materiales y energa usados en la produccin. Es decir, es un reto tanto el aumentar el grado de utilizacin de los materiales como al mismo tiempo reducir el impacto ambiental.

Hasta el momento solo se ha trabajado en corregir la emisin de desechos ya existentes, como por ejemplo el tratamiento de aguas residuales, la incineracin de desechos, etc., es decir, solo se busca soluciones a los desechos al final del proceso de produccin, este enfoque se le llama al final del tubo y se caracteriza por generar gastos adicionales a las empresas.

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