choose to go further by adopting the cleaner production philosophy. Cleaner production means using energy and resources more efficiently, minimising waste, and producing environmentally sound products and services for less cost and more profit. The cleaner production idea was developed by the United Nations Environment Programme and has been adopted by many businesses around the world. National data on the amount of recycled waste are limited, but recycling rates for some waste materials in 1993/94 are shown in Table 3.4. Since that time, the level of glass recycling has probably gone down because the major recycler no longer pays the transport costs of used glass. Conversely, levels of steel and oil recycling may have risen as a result of voluntary agreements between industry and the Government. The steel industry set itself the goal of recycling 25 percent of the nation’s 300 million used cans by the end of 1996. The oil industry’s Used Oil Recovery Programme, which was launched by the Minister for the Environment in March 1996, aims to recover 95 percent of available used oil by the year 2000. At present about 30 million litres are discarded annually, of which about 7 million
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