Pre-requisite: Progression rule or pre-requisite (depending on each department)
Lecturing Strategy: Lectures, demonstrations, assignments, case studies, seminars, industrial trips
Assessment: Mini Tests, Reports, Examinations, Practical & presentations (100%CE)
Duration: 4 hour(s) per week (15 weeks)
Self Study Time: 60 hrs
Notional hours: 120 hrs
Recommended Sequence: Semester 5/ 6 within NQF level 7
Professional Role: The students to master environmental and resource management concepts for enhancing their professional practices.

Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• describe the non-monetary and economical drivers of CP
• describe the advantages of CP concepts and techniques in a broader environmental and business context
• describe the synergic concept of CP, Lean and other sustainability concepts
• apply the CP process to solving business problems relating to waste, environmentand resources man agement
• evaluate and recommend CP options for different business case studies
• synthesis CP concepts into business objectives

Content:

1. Introduction to Cleaner Production (CP) and sustainability.

• Definitions of CP terminologies
• The CP concept
• Concept of Lea n, industrial ecology, environmental accounting
• CP Barriers & Drivers
• CP approach – the five concepts; re-use/recycling, house keeping, technology modification, material substitution and product modification
• New methods in CP

2. CP in a broader environmental context

• Safety, Health and Environment
• Waste management (water, energy solid waste etc)
• Life cycle analysis (from cradle to the grave)

3. CP in Business and social context

• Environmental accounting
• Operational efficiency and competitiveness
• Environmental liabilities and compliance
• Corporate image

4. The CP cycle

• Planning and organisation
• Basic CP tools for the identification of opportunities
• Prioritization and evaluation
• Implementation
• Measurement and review

5. Application of CP concepts and techniques in Case studies

• Evaluating walk-through reports
• Scoping studies
• CP projects

Reading List
1. Towards cleaner production methods
Dana Silk, 1992
ISSN 0028-0844.

2. Cleaner production and consumption : challenges and opportunities in East and Southern
Africa
Nonita T Yab, c1999
ISBN 0797420185.
3. Industrial Ecology
T.E Graedel and B.R Allenby: Printice hall ©1995
ISBN 013-125238