Assessment of environmental practices in Serbian meat companies

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 112, Issue , 2016, Pages 2495-2504

  Djekic Djekic, Ilija ^a   Blagojevic, Bojan ^b   Antic, Dragan ^c   Cegar, Simo ^b   Tomasevic, Igor ^a   Smigic, Nada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b University of Novi Sad   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy; Environmental impact; Meat industry; Waste; Waste water; Water

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MEATS; WASTES; WASTEWATER; WATER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES; ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIALISTS; MEAT INDUSTRY; MEAT PROCESSING PLANTS; OPERATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 84958834542     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.10.126     Document Type: Article

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