Resource Optimization Initiative
     
     
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The Resource Optimization Initiative (ROI), a not-for-profit entity, has been set up to introduce planning and tools based on Industrial Ecology to policy makers in governments and businesses of developing countries.

ROI is registered as a Public Charitable Trust in India, with its registered office in Bangalore, India.     
     
 

The major focus of the ROI, to begin with, would be Land, Water and Energy – the three major resources of concern in most developing countries.

 
 

Mission

 
 
   
 
The mission of the ROI is to promote the implementation of the concepts and tools of Industrial Ecology in the development and business planning processes in developing countries. Towards accomplishing its mission, the aims of the ROI are:

- To sensitize policy makers in government and businesses to the philosophy of Industrial Ecology based planning. This would help them to optimize use of material and energy resources for production and consumption processes in all sectors of the economy.

- To develop and impart skills in using Industrial Ecology based tools for policy-making in government and business.

- To develop and record cases of resource optimization efforts already in practice in some specific locations and to ensure that the experiences could be shared in different parts of the world.

- To be a repository of cases studies and data on resource optimization experiences in developing countries and of possible technology resources for this purpose.

- To partner with research institutions all over the world to encourage and facilitate research in Industrial Ecology in developing countries

- To offer assistance to user groups such as governments, international institutions and companies in using Industrial Ecology in policy making.








 
     
   
 
 
     
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