Cleaner production is a broad concept that addresses all aspects of inputs, production and outputs. It is a firm-wide concept rather than an operational concept because it explicitly includes
attitudes and management philosophy as well as business practices. Cleaner production is what a good EMS is supposed to implement, and includes the other practices described below. It is
broader in scope that pollution prevention in that it explicitly includes product design and use,
which is not commonly associated with the pollution prevention concept