A programming approach to optimizing pollutants in interindustry analysis

The main purpose of the study is to derive a penalty function which will seek an efficient production technology for producing a certain amount of commodities with a minimum amount of pollution. In this study production is regarded as the only source of pollution. The pollutant is treated as any other commodity and is directly related to the flow of material production, the level of technology and the final demand for goods. The pollutants are quantified in some common abstract unit of measurement. The problem of pollution estimation is treated within the traditional static input-output framework with an added feature of pollution creation and pollution elimination activities.