Pollution Prevention Pays

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The U.S. EPA reports in its "Pollution Prevention 1991 Progress on Reducing Industrial Pollutants" (12) that 24 major companies have made extensive progress in pollution prevention. The 3M Corporation, which instituted its "Pollution Prevention Pays" (3P) Program in 1975, has saved over 500 million that can be directly traced to the 3P Program (13),... 

M Corporation (Ref. 1) Pollution Prevention Pays cumulative first-year savings of 506 million, 1975-1989... 

Pollution Prevention Tips. 1985. (a) "Water Conservation for Electroplaters Rinse Tank Design" (b) "Water Conservation for Electroplaters Counter-Current Rinsing" (c) "Water Conservation for Electroplaters Rinse Water Reuse." Pollution Prevention Pays Program, North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development. 

For the businesses that have implemented pollution prevention programs, the amount saved or earned has been quite dramatic. For example, in the 3M Company, the Pollution Prevention Pays (3P) Program netted 350 million for their U.S. plants from 1976 through 1987 while reducing waste generation by more than 425,000 tons per year. 

When 3M established its Environmental Policy in 1975, it was one of the first companies to do so (Box 8.3). In that same year, it introduced its Pollution Prevention Pays program, a pioneering effort in its recognition of the business case for environmental performance and in its reporting on environmental progress. These statements of its progress were later followed by explicit goals for solid waste and releases to air and water. 

Improving operations has an immediate impact on the bottom line through cost reductions and supports sustainability. Our Pollution Prevention Pays (3P) program... 

M s operations became more sophisticated - and productive - with the introduction of the Pollution Prevention Pays (3P) program in 1975. As the name suggests, the program was founded on two assumptions that pollution should be prevented rather than treated after the fact, and that such an approach made economic sense. The results of the program have borne out these assumptions. To... 

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J Ling. 1979."Preface"in MG Royston, Pollution Prevention Pays. NewYork Pergamon Press. 

M. 3M s Pollution Prevention Pays. Environmental Engineering and Pollution Control Dept./3M St. Paul, MN, undated. 

Powell, D. 1992. New foam technology makes pollution prevention pay. Australasian Textiles (November/December). 

M.G. Royston in Making Pollution Prevention Pay, Harvard Business Review, November-December, Pergamon Press Inc., Oxford, UK, 1980. 

Royston, M.G. (1979), Pollution Prevention Pays, Pergamon Press. 

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