Requisites of a Zero Emissions Programme

  A company or any organization committed to undertake a zero emissions programme must pursue industrial politics and strategies based on the principles of a sustainable social, economic and environmental development

  A zero emissions programme maximizes the principles of eco-efficiency, aiming to inscribe integrally all its industrial actions into the cycles of nature

  The value added must be achieved through market mechanisms stimulating the elimination of all forms of waste whether their state is solid, liquid or gaseous

  A zero emissions programme must minimize all energy inputs from non-renewable sources, using “domestic” renewable energies or available as much locally as possible

  The withdraw rate of a renewable resource must not exceed the environmental renewability rate of that resource

  The zero emissions manufacture processes must save as much energy as possible, in their own energy needs and for their raw materials and pre-worked inputs

  The inputs not totally used - consumed or integrated into the product or in the manufacturing process - must become input for other processes (internal or external to the organization)

  The environmental cost of use of a waste must not exceed the cost of its natural recycle (without technological treatment)

  The zero emissions approach must give up those processes and stop producing those products that have to use non renewable energies

  The methodology of a zero emissions programme is based on the multidisciplinary research at a pre-competitive level (not motivated by competitiveness, but by a strategic sustainability of the involved interests into a vision securing competitiveness in the long term)

  In a zero emissions programme, the company adopts a new management style, characterized by bold strategic intentions, by listening the internal and external voices and by acting partecipation activities