[Pharmwaste] Chemical companies and environmentalists edge closer together in the pursuit of sustainability

[DeBiasi,Deborah]

This is a very long article, so I didn't copy it in here.  It's well
worth reading.  

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/86/8633cover2.html

Chemical and Engineering News

Home > August 18, 2008 Issue > Sustainability Special Issue > Converging
Pathways 
August 18, 2008   Volume 86, Number 33  pp. 47-56 

Converging Pathways

Chemical companies and environmentalists edge closer together in the
pursuit of sustainability

Michael McCoy

COULD THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY-the people who brought us DDT, Bhopal, the
ozone hole, and plastic bag litter-become the source of more sustainable
manufacturing, commerce, and lifestyles? That's what chemical company
executives would have us believe.




Deborah L. DeBiasi
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