Reducing Toxics

In Reducing Toxics, leading experts address industry, technology, health, and policy issues and explore the potential for pollution prevention at the industry and facility levels. They consider both the regulatory and institutional settings of toxics reduction initiatives, prescribe strategies for developing a prevention framework, and apply these principles in analyzing industry case studies. Among the topics considered are:the evolution of, and limits to, current environmental policyincorporating prevention into production planning and decisionmakingdo voluntary programs lead to industry greening or greenwashing?case studies of the chemical, aerosols, radiator repair and electric vehicle industriesopportunities for and barriers to pollution preventionReducing Toxics offers an analytic framework for defining and understanding different approaches in the toxics area and describes the basis for a new policy and industrial decisionmaking construct.