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The untapped wealth ofsolar resources |
THE BIG PROBLEM with current environmental policy and environmental management procedures in businesses is that individual problems are tackled in isolation. The result is an unmanageable catalogue of single-issue demands and measures. Even by the mid-1980s, the Chemical Abstract Service had registered 8 million chemicals, mostly synthetic,1 and well over a million must have been added since. Several hundred thousand of these registered compounds are in active use. Even if only 1 per cent of products cause environmental difficulties, this makes proper environmental safeguards next to impossible to achieve, regardless of whether the instruments used are laws, regulations or voluntary agreements ...
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