Hazardous chemicals avoiding distribution

With regard to the environment, the intensified plant of the future will be much less obtrusive, with the distillation and absorption towers of our present chemical complexes being replaced by more compact and inconspicuous equipment, which may be hidden by the boundary tree line. In addition, the cost of effluent treatment systems will be less, allowing tighter emission standards to be reached economically. The economic incentive to produce commodity chemicals in large centralised plant complex is likely to diminish or disappear with the application of PI. Thus distributed manufacture in smaller plant will be both feasible and economic, thereby avoiding the need to distribute hazardous material on the public transport system. 

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