Pollution Prevention Pays (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Pollution Prevention Pays 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 8
Dedication 6
Acknowledgements 9
Foreword 10
Part I: What Development Lays Down 18
Chapter 1. Pollution and society 18
Further reading 26
Chapter 2. Development and the environment 27
Further reading 34
Chapter 3. The cost of pollution 35
(i) Introduction 35
(ii) The costs of air, water and noise pollution 37
(iii) The medical cost of a polluted environment 44
(iv) Profit and loss: The impact of pollution control on the bottom line of the balance sheet 51
Further reading 57
Chapter 4. Managers, objectives and the environment 58
Further reading 71
Part II: How the Enterprises Answer 72
Chapter 5. Conflict and survival 72
Further reading 83
Chapter 6. Concern as a factor for growth 84
Further reading 103
Chapter 7. Non-waste technology 104
Further reading 133
Part III: Why the Technocrats Fail 134
Chapter 8. Versions of pollution control 134
Further reading 145
9. Benefits: the missed pay-off 146
Further reading 153
Part IV: Where to Go Now 154
Chapter 10. The integrated approach 154
Further reading 170
Chapter 11. Action programmes for the community, for government, and for industry 171
1. For the community 171
2. For government 175
3. For industry 177
Chapter 12. Alternatives: the right to a clean environment 184
Epilogue 195
Index of non-waste technology 202