Research Needs Workshop on Industrial Waste Minimization

减少浪费是进一步提高工业利润、效率和竞争力的重要手段。开发那些对工业生产力具有重大积极价值的技术，并承认其他尽量减少废物的目标最好通过传统的污染处理方法来实现，这是一项艰巨的挑战。在不久的将来（即使在今天），很明显，只有在制造方法上采取量子跃进，才能进一步减少浪费。因此，今天显然需要持续的、集中的研究努力来实现这些重大改进。因此，建议举办一个密集的、有针对性的研究需要讲习班，讨论和评估一个中心主题——“在工业废物最小化领域有什么基本的或创新的应用研究需要（包括实例）？”拟议的研究需要讲习班将主要由工业界的个人组成，作为推测和严格评价制造过程中尽量减少废物研究性质的主要团体。会议结束后，将编写一份执行摘要和一份报告，供对工业减少废物的研究承诺感兴趣的个人和组织使用。

Waste minimization is a significant means to further increase the profit, efficiency and competitiveness of industry. It is a strong challenge to develop those techniques which will have significant positive value to industrial productivity and to admit that other waste minimization goals are best achieved with classical pollution treatment approaches. On the horizon (even today) it is clear that further waste minimization is possible only when quantum jumps in the approaches to manufacturing are taken. Thus sustained, focused research efforts are clearly needed today to achieve these major improvements. It is therefore proposed to conduct an intense, directed Research Needs Workshop to discuss and develop an assessment of a central topic - "What are there basic or innovative applied research needs (including examples) in the field of industrial waste minimization?" The proposed Research Needs Workshop would be composed mostly of individuals from industry as the primary group to speculate and critically evaluate the nature of waste minimization research for manufacturing processes. Following the meeting, an Executive Summary and a report will be prepared for use of individuals and organizations with interest in research commitments to waste minimization for industry.