Investigating the prospect of cleaner production in informal enterprises: A scientific assessment of environmental burdens and economic efficiency.

ABSTRACT: The present study aims to assess the prospects for cleaner production (CP) and sustainable development (SD) of informally operated small manufacturing enterprises, which are frequently blamed for uncontrolled waste disposal and causing pollution to the environment. The economic efficiency level of these firms has been explored to this end, and the metallic pollution loads in the surrounding environment have been scientifically analyzed to investigate the nexus between these two. DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis)-Tobit analysis has been employed, and a pollution load index (PLI) of heavy metal pollution comprising two environmental compartments (soil and water) has been constructed based on the concentration level of metalloid pollutants in the samples collected from the surrounding areas of

SUBMITTER: Sultana N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040523 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature