ABSTRACT
Environmental care in industry has already existed for many decades. In the early 1960s, the detrimental effect of emissions to air, water, and soil was recognized as a global scale, and since that time legislation, regulation, and voluntary programs have been started to abate pollution. For more than 20 years main focus has been on production processes and hence on industry sectors involved in basic production (chemicals, materials like steel, paper, etc). Environment was seen as part of industrial engineering; solutions to environmental problems were sought in “end of pipe” cleaning through investment in installations.
