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O*NET detailed work activityDevelop sustainable industrial or development methods
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Part of Develop sustainable organizational or business policies or practices, under the O*NET work activity group Thinking Creatively. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 6 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
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- Identify or develop strategies or methods to minimize the environmental impact of industrial production processes.
- Redesign linear, or open-loop, systems into cyclical, or closed-loop, systems so that waste products become inputs for new processes, modeling natural ecosystems.
- Develop methods of conserving or managing soil that can be applied by farmers or forestry companies.
- Develop methods to minimize the impact of production processes on the environment, based on the study and assessment of industrial production, environmental legislation, and physical, biological, and social environments.
- Devise cultural methods or environmental controls for plants for which guidelines are sketchy or nonexistent.
- Develop ways to capture or use gases burned off as waste during oil production processes.