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Fig. 4.1 Integrated development of chemical processes and products with the three guiding
principles and the methods and tools used to implement them. An iterative approach evaluates
design variants and compares their impacts to the responsibility to protect human health (society)
and the environment
high-quality chemical processes and products across their entire life cycle. These
should be applied to both chemical processes as well as the chemical products that
these processes help to manufacture. A well-developed process that follows these
principles does not compensate for the production of a poorly-developed product
that does not follow the principles.
4.3.2.1 Eco-Efficiency
The principle of eco-efficiency relates the amount of value added from a product or
process to the required amount of resources used or polluted to create it. High eco-