Eco-Industrial parks in Iraq

Abstract

The idea of eco-industrial parks developed and became part of the planning process for the industrial city and this came as a reaction to the adverse effects of industry on the environment if this pollution continues, it will negatively affect our lives and future generations. Its importance is highlighted by achieving the principles of sustainable development by realizing the idea of a closed industrial loop in the design of the industrial city and making it self-sufficient as possible in terms of energy consumed to perform industrial operations. In addition to recycling industrial waste and benefiting from it with the idea of product and by-product where the product is considered a by-product (waste industrial) a raw material for another industry. The research paper dealt with the concept of the environmental industrial city. To study is aimed to examine the reality of planning for the industrial cities in Iraq and the environmental industrial cities around the world, and extract the most important solutions and strategies that can be followed in the Iraqi industrial cities to make them environmental industrial cities. Its main goals are embodied in preserving environmental resources and not wasting them to preserve the rights of future generations and Sustainable long-term economic success, in addition to providing a clean environment free of pollution in Iraq. In comparison with the ecological industrial cities around the world and the strategies and objectives of the proposed industrial cities in Iraq, we find: The use of clean energy, reuse of waste resulting from industrial processes, water reuse, and other main principles should be included in the Iraqi industrial cities, in addition, to set up units for treating heavy water and waste and power and purification plants.