The Clean Technology Incentive Scheme of the State of Victoria, Australia

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
M. A. Connor ◽  
D. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
Clean Technology ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Incentive Scheme ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Technology Applications ◽  
Waste Minimisation ◽  
Financial Soundness ◽  
Production Techniques ◽  
Environment Protection Authority

Over the past decade environment protection policies have placed increasing emphasis on waste minimisation and cleaner production techniques. The Environment Protection Authority in Victoria, Australia, has sought to encourage waste minimisation by establishing a Clean Technology Incentive Scheme. This Scheme makes available secured interest-free loans of up to $100,000 to selected small and medium-sized companies proposing to install proven yet innovative waste reducing technology. Applications are evaluated by a Review Committee drawn from a diversity of backgrounds. The technical feasibility, innovativeness, environmental benefits and financial soundness of proposals are assessed and a short-list of potential loan recipients prepared. The managerial competence and financial status of short-listed applicants is checked before loans are made. The Scheme was established in 1988 and since then 35 offers of loans have been made. Whilst the newness of the Scheme makes evaluation of its long-term effectiveness premature, results to date are encouraging. Case studies of three especially successful projects are presented.

scholarly journals Nanotechnological Advances in Catalytic Thin Films for Green Large-Area Surfaces

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzan Biran Ay ◽  
Nihan Kosku Perkgoz
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Thin Films ◽  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Transformational Change ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Thin Film Coatings ◽  
Technology Applications ◽  
Production Techniques ◽  
Save Energy

Large-area catalytic thin films offer great potential for green technology applications in order to save energy, combat pollution, and reduce global warming. These films, either embedded with nanoparticles, shaped with nanostructuring techniques, hybridized with other systems, or functionalized with bionanotechnological methods, can include many different surface properties including photocatalytic, antifouling, abrasion resistant and mechanically resistive, self-cleaning, antibacterial, hydrophobic, and oleophobic features. Thus, surface functionalization with such advanced structuring methods is of significance to increase the performance and wide usage of large-area thin film coatings specifically for environmental remediation. In this review, we focus on methods to increase the efficiency of catalytic reactions in thin film and hence improve the performance in relevant applications while eliminating high cost with the purpose of widespread usage. However, we also include the most recent hybrid architectures, which have potential to make a transformational change in surface applications as soon as high quality and large area production techniques are available. Hence, we present and discuss research studies regarding both organic and inorganic methods that are used to structure thin films that have potential for large-area and eco-friendly coatings.

The Instance Analysis of Mine Geological Environment Protection and Recovery Management

2014 ◽  
Vol 955-959 ◽  
pp. 2037-2040
Author(s):  
Qian Qian Wu ◽  
Sheng Gao Cheng ◽  
Guo Jin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Geological Environment ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Environment Management ◽  
Development And Utilization ◽  
Management Project ◽  
Recovery Management ◽  
Instance Analysis

This article takes one of the mine in Caidian as an example, it analyzes the mine’s environmental geological problems and hazards, brings out the measures of recovery and management with the development and utilization, summarizes the environmental benefits of the management project. The project is a demonstration of the mine geological environment management in Wuhan. What’s more, it gives reference to similar mines’ geological environment protection and recovery management.

scholarly journals Determinanty rozwoju ekoinnowacji w przedsiębiorstwach agrobiznesu

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabela Wielewska
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Waste Segregation ◽  
Market Instability

The aim of the article was to indicate determinants of the development of eco-innovations implemented in agribusiness companies and chief barriers that trigger reluctance towards investments of ecological nature. Research was conducted in rural areas of Pomorskie Province in the second quarter of 2019 among owners, managers and others who operate in the field of environment protection. The research showed that, besides environmental benefits, the decisive factor for the implementation of eco-innovations are the economical and social benefits. The surveyed companies mostly invested in RES, waste segregation and modernization of existing technological lines. Also, certain barriers were indicated which agribusiness companies still encounter. The most important of those include outmoded infrastructure, financial limitations, high cost of eco-innovations and operating in the conditions of market instability.

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