Collective environmental management and industrial ecology in industrial parks

There are more than 25 000 parcs d'activités in France. To ensure the promotion of environmental quality standards and collective environmental management in those industrial parks, Orée animates a permanent working group. It is based on exchange and feedback of experiences and aims at developing tools and methodological elements. It unites the principal French players interested in industrial ecology.

At the same time, this is one of the first working groups and it is deeply rooted in the association. In 2003 it resulted in the publication of the Handbook for Environmental Management of Industrial Parks (and its electronic version Ecocartes-za.org).
Since March 2005 the following topic has been treated: “From collective environmental management to industrial ecology.”
The previous topic dealt with mobility questions: a mini guide had been developed on how to work out a mobility plan in industrial parks.