Cleaner Production Strategy for Improving Environmental Performance of Small Scale Cracker Industry

Cracker industry is one of thriving small-medium food industries in Yogyakarta Special Province. The cracker processing plant produces wastewater that potentially contaminates the environment. Wastewater coming from the washing of production equipments has the BOD and COD concentration that exceed the treshold of quality standard due to it containing high organic matter. This paper proposes a cleaner production strategy with environmental, economic and technical benefits for small scale cracker industry. Implementation of good housekeeping by improving the worker thoroughness in the production process and cleaning the scrap on the production equipment before washing improves the environmental performance in terms of biological oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD) by 76.67% and 84%, respectively. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)