The Jordanian Friends of the Environment association in collaboration with the Development Bank, the Swiss Business Association (SBA) and Abu-Ghazaleh Consulting Co. (AGCON), has organized a workshop entitled “Good Environmental Management in Factories” in the conference room of the industrial cities institution.
The engineer Raouf Al-Dabbas, President of Friends of the Environment association, stressed the importance of enhancing the efficiency of the environment within the Jordanian factories and the importance of the urgent application of the environmental regulations in all the plants’ interior facilities, where there are many existing environmental regulations which some of them are expensive while others are not and do not need to call foreign experts. Mr. Al-Dabbas added that because Jordan has signed important international trade agreements like the World Trade agreement (WTO) as well as the Jordanian-American free trade agreement, Jordan desperately needs to improve environment within industrial facilities regardless of the size of these industries. He explained that environmental conditions and specifications and quality requirements to export to developed countries are very high and, therefore, it has become a priority to preserve the Jordanian economy by raising environmental efficiency and the quality of industrial products.
It’s note worthy that the good environmental management system; the GHK, is considered an economical and very inexpensive way to improve the environmental efficiency.
Mr. Mohammad AlSharayri, official in The Jordanian Network for Environment-Friendly Industries (JNEFI), explained that there are between 69 factories in Jordan that participates in this unique network in the Middle East. He also said that Network members can take advantage of the support of industrial Development Bank in improving environmental performance in factories, as well as conducting a detailed audit by the University of Science and Technology ,and Queen Rania Al-Abdullah Center for Environmental Science & Technology.