Abstract
The European Initiatives of environmental policy are moving increasingly towards the continuous improvement of performance in a sustainable model, leading to stipulate that one of the components that quantifies the quality of the product on key variables of sustainability influences. The greater environmental impact in many manufacturing stages is the waste production and management. In this context, the life cycle approach better identifies and quantifying material and energy consumption and environmental emissions. The aim of this chapter is to describe, in detail, production and waste management in the pharmaceutical context, analyzing the environmental impact through life cycle approach.
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Agar, A., Arcese, G., Lucchetti, M. (2014). Waste Management and Environmental Impact: A Case Study of Pharmaceutical Industry. In: Salomone, R., Saija, G. (eds) Pathways to Environmental Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03826-1_10
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