Cleaner production is an integrated preventive environmental strategy applied to processes, products, and services to increase efficiency and reduce risks to humans and the environment. It can be applied to any process or service through simple operational changes to major substitutions. Principles include good management practices, better process control, raw material substitutions, equipment modifications, technology changes, on-site reuse and recovery, and useful by-product production. Benefits include competitiveness, environmental compliance, and sustainable development. The Mexican Center for Cleaner Production assists industry in improving productivity and access to markets through cleaner production, research, diagnostics, training, and sustainable development services.