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CHAPTER 1 Makiing Pollution Prevention Pay

1. advanced pollution control equipment

2. amount of employment engendered by all aspects of environmental protection

3. assess the environmental impact of projects they are about to introduce

4. attack the problem at its root

5. audit savings

6. avoid costly delay

7. based on the social environment

8. be compatible with

9. best-managed and most efficient businesses

10. boost construction and engineering

11. bring about reduced energy use

12. bring in its wake a wave of new businesses

13. bring monetary benefit

14. by-product

15. change manufacturing processes

16. citizen protest actions

17. clean-up

18. combined treatments

19. construct elaborate scenarios

20. contribute their knowledge and observations

21. corporate personnel from the shop floor upward

22. costly threat

23. costs of energy, water, and raw materials

24. decrease pollution from

25. delegate responsibility and initiative

26. dispose of refinery sludge

27. effluents

28. eliminate air pollutants

29. eliminate up to 50% of the pollution

30. employment induced by

31. encourage environmental awareness of their staffs

32. environmental protection

33. environmentally induced economic activity

34. expand production

35. expend money

36. extraction and building industries

37. focus attention on waste avoidance

38. efficient operation

39. forecast from scenarios

40. gaseous effluent

41. generate innovation

42. give corporate-wide recognition to the importance of

43. go hand in hand

44. gross national product

45. growth areas

46. have a good margin for improving efficiency

47. heavy financial burden

48. implement a technology

49. improve chances of surviving

50. increase marginal profit by 30%

51. increase profit

52. increase sales

53. industrial and municipal installations

54. industrial wastes

55. innovative features

56. install pollution control plants

57. integrate one type of processing plant with another

58. liquid effluents

59. long-standing environmental concern

60. look at industrial wastes as ways of making money

61. major companies

62. make sure that none of it is converted to drinking liquor

63. make the company efficient and profitable

64. manufacturing costs

65. market environmental products and services

66. meet demands for pollution control

67. minimize the negative and maximize the positive impacts of projects

68. minimize waste

69. modify processes

70. more efficient use of raw materials

71. no-waste approaches

72. no-waste technologies

73. no-waste technologies

74. pollutants plus know-how equal potential resources

75. pollution from operations

76. pollution prevention opportunities

77. prevent projects from being blocked by the courts

78. prevent the massive pollution of

79. processes in use

80. profits

81. protection of the environment

82. recession

83. recoverer electroplating liquors

84. recovering materials for reuse

85. recycle

86. recycle water/solvents

87. redesign equipment

88. reduce annual pollutant load

89. reduce capital or running costs

90. reduce costs

91. reduced or deferred controls

92. reformulate product

93. report progress to management

94. report to the central committee

95. result from external need or pressure

96. result in a cost saving of $2,400,000 a year

97. reward all company personnel

98. set targets for waste avoidance

99. set up

100. shop floor

101. shop floor personnel

102. solid wastes

103. station men in the plant full-time

104. stem from technological innovation

105. stimulate the economy

106. strict pollution control

107. subsidiary

108. take environmental concerns into account

109. threaten profitability

110. to the benefit of both the economy and the environment

111. turn half their gross pollution load to profit

112. ultimate objective

113. under the auspices of

114. vary widely from industry to industry

115. view pollution as an indicator of waste

116. waste disposal

117. waste water

118. yield a turnover of