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Pollution prevention in the industrial sector is hardly a new concept. Industrial operations traditionally have adopted a variety of waste reduction techniques to lower costs of production to increase profits. However, only in recent years, economical incentives and the corresponding emphasis on prevention as a management priority have grown more rapidly.
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Shen, T.T. (1995). Industrial Pollution Prevention. In: Industrial Pollution Prevention. Environmental Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03110-0_2
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