Environmental performance evaluation (EPE) for small medium industries

Due to the increasing demand for green manufacturing and environmentally friendly products, environmental performance evaluation (EPE) is now a necessity for manufacturing companies. Environmental performance evaluation is an internal process of any manufacturing organisation through which they can identify their environmental indicators (such as energy consumption, solid waste and reprocessed materials) with highest negative impact on the environment. This paper presents the model of environmental performance evaluation which can be applied by small medium industries and also it can accommodate different environmental indicators as input, produces the environmental performance in linguistic terms (e.g. moderate, satisfied, and optimum) as output. This helps the company continuously monitor their environmental impacts via controlling their environmental indicators.