An Eco-effective product combines each of the above elements. The terms Eco-efficient and Eco-effective are often lumped together. Yet, a world of difference separates them. Many natural processes waste energy and materials. Trees...
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An Eco-effective product combines each of the above elements. The terms Eco-efficient and Eco-effective are often lumped together. Yet, a world of difference separates them. Many natural processes waste energy and materials. Trees and animals produce huge amounts of waste. They are not Eco-efficient. Yet they are Eco-effective, because they are part of sustainable systems that reuse every bit of waste, for example as fertilizer. Likewise, a product can be effective if it produces materials that can be converted to other uses. Eco-efficiency was adopted by industry at the start of the 1990s. It used methods such as reduction in the volume of pollutants to minimize adverse environmental impacts. However, after some time, it was found that those practices slow rates of contamination and depletion, but they do not stop them. Furthermore, as globalized economic development accelerates, this "reduction" is often negated by a net increase in the total contaminants produced on a worldwide basis. EPEA has therefore developed a new approach: Eco-effective solutions. These maximize biocompatibility, produce reusable waste, and enable high quality resource recovery. Here are comparisons of Eco-efficiency and Eco-effectiveness:
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