Sustainability

15Industrial Practices in Sustainability

K.K. Brar¹, Dalila Larios Martinez², Mitra Naghdi², Satinder K. Brar³, Bhupinder Singh Chadha¹, Preetinder Singh⁴, and Rao Y. Surampalli⁵

¹Department of Microbiology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India

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²INRS, Université du Québec, Québec, Canada

³Department of Civil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada

⁴Ludhiana Beverages, Pvt Ltd, Doraha (Ludhiana), India

⁵Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

15.1 Introduction

The performance and throughput of business operations depend upon economic structures, policies, availability of resources, distribution of goods and services being provided. The technologies, quality of raw materials and the processing activities being carried out for the manufacturing of goods have a substantial impact on the quality of the environment (www.sustainablescale.org). In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, manufacturing processes were basically dependent on non-renewable sources of energy (www.sustainablescale.org). With the increase in world population, the need for resources has also been increased and, in order to meet the increasing demand, the scale of industrial activities has also grown, which leads to a gradual decrease in the quality and quantity of environmental resources. Over the years, the main focus has been on how to take the maximum output from the industrial sector without considering its ...