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6 Recycling
6 Recycling
Pages 37-43
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Kneese, Norm American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Houston, 1968 "Recycling boom gains ground across nation," heralded a headline recently in the Boston Globe. The article went on to detail the findings of a report by the National Recycling Coalition, reporting that "80 percent of the states now have comprehensive recycling laws, and curbside recycling programs have grown from a few hundred at the end of the 1980s to more than 4,000." The article continued,"in an effort to develop markets for all that is being collected, more than half the states have also passed laws to offer incentives or issue mandates for manufactur ers to use recycled materials." Although recycling appears to be in vogue today, it is a practice that has occurred wherever it has been economically advantageous.
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The law establishes target recycling rates for each type of recyclable resource and product priorities for specific industry sectors (Table 3~. It also prescribes industry and national and local government re .
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· Eliminate substances that are detrimental to the glo bal environment. The second need that must be satisfied is for a comprehensive R&D effort to develop innovative technologies to reduce the volume of wastes, recycle recovered materials, simplify waste treatments, and establish technologies for "industrial restoration and regeneration" as well as technologies for industrial production.
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This R&D consortium is placing major emphasis on developing technologies to recycle materials and components from scrap automobiles; understanding major technical, environmental, and cost issues associated with various alternatives; and developing guidelines for improving designs and materials selection for easier recycling of future vehicles. Issues to Consicler in Recycling Automobiles NAGAYUKI MARUMO In Japan, Nissan formed a Recycling Promotion Committee in August 1990.
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For example, Canon currently produces more than two million cartridges per month, with an estimated growth rate of 30 percent per year. This dramatic growth prompted Canon to address the implied waste associated with used cartridges.
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In the United States, EPA's technological expertise lies predominantly in environmental control technologies, and the approach to controlling pollution has been to define "best available technologies." Pollution prevention efforts increasingly require knowledge of production technology, knowledge the agency lacks. The approach of providing incentives to prevent pollution leaves production technology decisions to industry.
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REFERENCE Japan External Trade Organization JETRO)
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