Exploration and Development of a Sustainable Agro based Industrial Ecosystem Model with special reference to Sugar Industry

Abstract

Over a period of time industrialisation has grown rapidly and has increased productivity, wealth and prosperity of the nation. However, this has also added a lot of unwanted externalities. One of the concerning externalities lingering across the world is pollution caused by these industries. The departure of various unwanted wastes in the form of gas, liquid and solid has led to the contamination of different environmental segments like atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere. This process may result into significant economic losses and lead to adverse impacts on health thereby reducing overall human working capacity. Wastes cause detrimental impacts on various life forms which leads to loss of biodiversity and overall ecological balance. This process has resulted to myriad problems ranging from very local level issues (like for example, solid waste disposal) to global issues (like for example climate change). Overutilisation of thenatural resources has resulted into a growing interest in the issues like sustainable development and ecological rejuvenation / revival . One of the concerning issue for sustainable development is to break the linkage between continuous growth of waste and their magnitude of releasing pollutants to the environment. This may reduce the pollution intensity of industrial production. This has inbuilt the policies for reducing the pollution level spanning from local to global level. newlineIndustries with the growing awareness have been trying to adopt the best way to prevent pollution through adopting technologies to reduce the emission of wastes to the environment and zero defects quality which are the integral part of ISO 14001/ Environmental Management System (EMS) to improve environmental performance. However, such practices are restricted to few very large scale industries who are aware of the concept. Unfortunately there are sveral large scale industries (LSIs) and small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) newline