Posts Tagged Action
No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action
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Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clustersthese phrases suggest deception and irresponsibility. But more significantly, they are watchwords for a growing struggle between communities, corporations, and government. In No Safe Place, sociologists, public policy professionals, and activists will learn how residents of Woburn, Massachusetts discovered a childhood leukemia cluster and eventually sued two corporate giants. Their story gives rise t… More >>
No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action
Tags: Action, childhood leukemia, Community, corporate giants, irresponsibility, Leukemia, leukemia cluster, Place, policy professionals, Safe, safe place, sociologists, Toxic, toxic waste, Waste, woburn massachusettsRelated posts
Reducing Hazardous Waste Generation: An Evaluation and a Call for Action
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This is the first thorough exploration of how industry, government, and the public can use available nontechnical means to reduce significantly the amount of hazardous waste entering the environment. Among the approaches considered are modifications to avoid contaminating normal wastewater with hazardous by-products, education of management and engineering personnel about reuse and recycling, reform of regulations and enforcement procedures, and incentives for impro… More >>
Reducing Hazardous Waste Generation: An Evaluation and a Call for Action
Tags: Action, Call, Evaluation, generation, Hazardous, hazardous waste generation, incentives, products education, Recycling, Reducing, Waste, WastewaterRelated posts