Waste management in a typical Chinese gravure plate-making industry

Both waste management and cleaner production (CP) are playing a crucial role in reducing consumption of energy, water and raw materials, in addition to avoiding waste generation. Through investigating one typical gravure plate-making industry in Tianjin, PR China, waste management and cleaner production audit (CPA) have been used to find important opportunities for cleaner production. In this waste management process, three major technical innovations have been proposed and applied in this company. Through the first-round cleaner production audit, 0.68 million USD can be saved during one year. By the way, cost-effectiveness of the suggested programs is increased obviously compared with traditional production technology, which is important and conductive to the promotion of these novel technical progresses for other gravure plate-making industry in China.