An eco-industrial park (EIP) is an industrial park in which businesses cooperate with each other and with the local community in an attempt to reduce waste and pollution, efficiently share resources (such as information, materials, water, energy, infrastructure, and natural resources), and help achieve sustainable development, with the intention of increasing economic gains and improving environmental quality. An EIP may also be planned, designed, and built in such a way that it makes it easier for businesses to co-operate, and that results in a more financially sound, environmentally friendly project for the developer. An example of this is the designed eco-industrial park centered around photovoltaic devices discussed here.
See also
Interwiki links
- Industrial Ecology Wiki - very nice semantic wiki set up to follow eco-industrial parks
- Wikipedia:Industrial ecology
- wikipedia:Eco-industrial park
- OSE: Eco-industrial park