Voluntary Environmental Agreements Applied to Jingzhou Textile and Dyeing Enterprises for Pollution Prevention and Controls

Abstract:

As a tool of environmental policy, many countries in a world attach importance to voluntary agreement increasingly. The paper summarized that Voluntary Environment Agreements (VEAs) was put into practice in textile printing and dyeing industry of Jingzhou, put forward a frame of the VEAs and its details which are implemented in the city, investigated and analyzed the concrete measures that were adopted by a part of the textile and dyeing enterprises in performing VEAs, and the preliminary effects in energy-saving and emission-reduction engendered by the measures. The practices indicated that textile and dyeing enterprises adopting VEAs is beneficial to enhance their productivity and management, and to decrease their energy consumption and the amount of sewage. To encourage the enterprises adopting VEAs, the government should support them in relevant policy and financing, solve their capital deficit and the increased cost due to the advanced environment management.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 864-867)
• Pages: 1826-1829
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.864-867.1826
• Online since: December 2013
• Authors: Li Qun Yang*, Chu Zhou Deng, Jian Qiang Zhu
• Keywords: Jingzhou, Textile and Dyeing Enterprise, Voluntary Environment Agreements

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