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Title
An Analysis of Environmental Costs for a Midlle Sized Printing and Packing Company
Abstract
In the past three decades, awareness of the companies towards the environmental issues increased because of new regulations and increased public awareness. In order to satisfy the public demand and accomplish the legal obligations companies initiated using environmental friendly technologies and made changes in their manufacturing processes and material usage. Implementation of environmental friendly manufacturing systems brings additional costs to the companies. In this study the classification of environmental costs in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are discussed and previously suggested environmental costs classification system for SMEs were applied to a middle size printing and packing company. The share of environmental management cost of the company was calculated as 2.7% of annual expenses while the average annual cost of environmental investments were about at the level of 0.6%. In the main part of this study, we discussed how environmental costs are being done varies in a number of respects and applications for a selected type of work sector, how they can be grouped or classified, and what could be the magnitude of the environmental investment to fulfill new national regulations established.
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PeerReviewed
PeerReviewed
Date
2010-06
Extent
250