ABSTRACT
Pollution prevention has been recognized as potentially one of the lowest-cost options available for waste/pollutant management. Hence, an understanding of the economics involved in pollution prevention options is quite important in making decisions at both the engineering and management levels. Every engineer should be able to execute an economic evaluation of a proposed project. If a project is not protable, it should obviously not be pursued, and the earlier this can be identied, the better (Theodore and Neuser 1996).
