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Green manufacturing 101Manufacturing is when you take raw materials and combine the raw materials together to form a finished product. Most people when they think of manufacturing they think about having to order all of the numerous parts that are going to be needed to put together the finished product that is going to be for sale. For example, computers require a variety of little parts to be put together to sell the finished product. With manufacturing, you are probably aware of the various forms of manufacturing that can be used, but you might not be familiar with green manufacturing. When people think of manufacturing they do not think of green manufacturing because the thought of manufacturing is large companies, putting numerous emissions into the air to manufacture their product. For example, chemical processing plants and gas refineries are types of manufacturing plants, which nobody thinks about them using green methods of manufacturing. The problem is that more and more people are becoming concerned with the environment, so more companies have to change their manufacturing methods to help protect the environment.
One of the biggest concerns with manufacturing plants is that they are a big source of pollution and wasted energy. Manufacturing plants account for about 25% of the energy used each year in the United States. Aside from all of the energy, it consumes manufacturing often leads to pollution because most of the energy that is used in manufacturing is obtained via combustion processes from coal, coke, natural gases, oil, and waste which generate a lot of harmful greenhouse gases. No matter what type of manufacturing you are doing, it is going to create some type of pollution because of the amount and type of waste that is produced. If your company is producing electronic items, you are going to have problems disposing of certain components because of the various depositions and etching technologies that are being used in making the components, the same holds true with chemical and primary material plants. Regardless of what industry you are, working is waste disposal and energy consumption is a major problem. This is where the concept of green manufacturing comes into play. By making, a few small changes you can help make your manufacturing plant more environmentally friendly. Here are some things that you should know about green manufacturing:
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