Industries have a key role in sustainable development: they have to meet the increasing demand of consumers and, at the same time, deal with the scarcity of raw materials and the reduction of their environmental impact.

Main objectives

• To provide the participants with some suggestions and explanations concerning the role of industry in the new challenges for environmental protection throughout products’ life cycle.
• To present the main policies in this field, through the analysis of the most important regulations and directives about waste and water control in Italian and European legislation.
• To focus on topics of special interest: Industrial Ecology, Environmental Auditing, Green Chemistry.

Topics

• Industrial Environmental Issues
• Environmental Policy and Industry
• Industrial Ecology
• Voluntary Agreements