write a report suggesting various steps to make our a environment pollution free zone for sustainable development? please give answer in 500 words.
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Organizations can profit significantly from efficient resources and efficient waste management, and from improved environmental management practices. This free article explains the basics of resources efficiency and how to manage resources more efficiently. The article discusses Life Cycle Analysis and how this can be used as a starting point for organizations seeking to improve the efficiency of their waste and resources management. Three topics form the main focus: solid waste, energy and transport. The human factor is also considered, such as workforce participation in energy saving schemes and employees' travel to work. This is not an exhaustive guide to organizational resources efficiency - it's an introduction: to inform, and to provoke ideas and discussion. While the article is written from a UK perspective, its principles apply globally. The chief content of this free article is provided by Studentforce, a UK charity uniquely focused on helping young people develop their employability through assisting the environmental sustainability of communities and employers. This contribution of this material gratefully acknowledged and details of how to pursue graduate opportunities in the environmental and sustainable development sectors are at the end of this article.
Resource efficiency is an aspect of Sustainable Development, which in the UK has become embodied in Government legislation over recent years, especially after the publication of "A strategy for sustainable development for the UK" in 1999. Many other countries have similar government led programmes.
"Sustainable Development is a dynamic process which enables all people to realise their potential and improve their quality of life in ways which simultaneously protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems" Forum for the Future, 2000.
Views as to the viability of the Sustainable Development concept range between unrealistic and unfeasible perfectly possible and moreover absolutely necessary.
Meadows et al (1972) "... showed that it could not be possible to grow and conserve resources, consequent upon the principles of thermodynamics..."
Whereas, Von Weizsacker et al (1998) states that "... Factor 4 in a nutshell means that resource productivity can - and should - grow fourfold. The amount of wealth extracted from 1 unit of natural resource can quadruple. Thus we can live twice as well - yet use half as much...."
Few believe this to be achievable even though it is possible. The issue is that the success of Factor 4 requires regulated markets, long term planning, paced investment and opportunistic ventures that lock both firms and consumers into a fixed embrace. It thereby reduces choice but the technology of resource efficiency is increasing at a rapid rate with the development of the microchip, together with regulations such as the Direction on Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment