“Eco-efficiency Training for National Experts”
On October the 28th through the 29th of 2011 a seminar called “Eco-Efficiency (Cleaner Production) Training for National Experts” was held. Professor Dr. Göksel Demirer of the Environmental Engineering Faculty at Middle East Technical University, Ferda Ulutaş and Emrah Alkaya, both members of the TTGV, provided information to the national experts on the following topics:
- The UNIDO Eco-Efficiency (Cleaner Production) Programme,
- The conceptual framework and definition of Cleaner Production (CP),
- The applications of Cleaner Production on an industrial facility basis,
- The elementary differences between the cleaner production approach and the end-of-the-pipe approach,
- The importance in the adoption of cleaner production practices in place of end-of-the-pipe practices,
- The importance of the components of cleaner production and in particular, the importance of the continuous accumulation of data,
- The realization that in order for CP projects to come to life environmental groups must be formed and policy must be developed. The adoption of the environmental policies by managers and employees,
- Waste management and recycling,
- Cleaner production inspection,
- Pilot projects realized under the UNIDO Eco-Efficiency (Cleaner Production) Programme.
“Material Flow Analysis for and Eco-efficiency Training National Experts
On the 9th through the 11th of February, 2011 experts Ilona Dierschke and Maatthias Graf, of the Effizienz-Agentur NRW (EFA), shared their corporate experience with our national experts and provided information about EFA’s licensed PIUS Check Methods at the “The Material Flow Analysis and Eco-Efficiency Training for National Experts”. On the second day of the training programme a visit was made to the BOSAN Painting Corporation Facility. In groups, our national experts performed the PIUS Check at the facility. On the third day of training the work completed by the groups and the developments incurred by the facility through the cleaner production training were evaluated and presented in detail to all the participants.
Due to the limited capacity of this training session some participants that were set to attend the first session of this training attended a second session. While determining potential participants the participation of different organizations and the examination of the effects of different variables were considered.
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