This paper analyses the generation of waste in production processes, based on the physical law of conservation of mass. By this law, mass going into a production process must equal the mass coming out of the same process. The paper uses this mass balance perspective to refine a previously...

This paper analyses the generation of waste in production processes, based on the physical law of conservation of mass. By this law, mass going into a production process must equal the mass coming out of the same process. The paper uses this mass balance perspective to refine a previously...

This paper analyses the generation of waste inproduction processes using a technique based onthe physical law of conservation of mass.According to this law, mass going into aproduction process must equal the mass comingout of the same process. The paper uses thismass balance perspective to...