Green Productivity Approach in Batik Industry

Abstract

Nowadays, Industries compete one to each other on many factors. When industries improve productivity, they may ignore the environmental effect. Green Productivity is a concept that can improve both productivity and environmental performance. Thus, this research was conducted in the batik industry namely Batik Ayu Arimbi. The Batik industry is known as one of the most polluting industries since it creates both liquid and solid waste. Most of them release the waste directly into nature without disposing it in a proper way. After the EPI index has been calculated, it is known that the environmental performance of this industry is far below the government standards. To tackle the issue, this research uses the green productivity approach. This approach results in 2 (two) alternatives solutions for Batik production which increased the productivity as well as the EPI index.