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Cleaner Production, as defined by the United Nations Environment Programme, is the continuous application of an integrated preventive environmental strategy to processes, products, and services to increase overall efficiency, and reduce risks to humans and the environment. Cleaner Production can be applied to the processes used in any industry, to products themselves and to various services provided in society.
What is the Caribbean Cleaner Production and Sustainable The CPSCIC was established in 2008 from the collaboration between the Caribbean Environmental Health Institute and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) through its Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC).
Why was the CPSCIC established? Consumption is about the various ways we use the planet's resources in our everyday lives. This includes the food, clothes and electronics we consume, our mode of transportation, where and how we take our vacations. These products and services all have social and environmental impacts, whether in their production and distribution, when in 'use' or when they are thrown away as waste. As society has become more prosperous and the number of separate households has increased, consumption levels have risen sharply. There is obviously huge potential to deliver improvements through consuming better products and services as well as learning to consume differently. |
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Caribbean Environmental Health Institute, The Morne, P.O. Box 1111, Castries, St. Lucia |
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Cleaner Production and Sustainable Consumption Information Centre for the Caribbean |
