Nowadays, industrial environmental management efforts always linked with the extra cost, so it will depend on the top management priority. Environmental management in industry usually based only to comply to the government rules and other stakeholders (client, estate management, etc). This kind of environmental management won’t be able to sustain and became less priority.

Serpong 26-29 Augustus 2008

Managing the environment usually considered as a burden to comply the rules and related only with extra expanses.  For example, if the companies generate x liters of waste than they have to propare $ y amount of money to treat it. If this point of view doesn't change, the environmental management will be neglected.

ICPC is invited to the "International Workshop on Community-based Solid Waste Management and Supporting National Policies" by United Nation ESCAP in surabaya, Indonesia next 27-28 August 2008.