Southern Industrial Wastes Conference

In the absence of effective outside supervision, the chemical industry understood that responsibility for control of its pollution now fell primarily on its own shoulders. In April 1954, it marked the twin themes of its rapid postwar expansion and its assumption of the burden of environmental protection by convening a Southern Industrial Wastes Conference in Houston. The newly formed Texas Chemical Council and the Southern Association of Science and Industry joined the Manufacturing Chemists Association as sponsors of this gathering. Some 250 pollution specialists, almost all of them chemical company employees, were in attendance. 

C. K. Banks, The Interdependence of Man and Earth, Proc. Southern Industrial Wastes Conference, Houston, April 21—23, 1954, PP- 8—29. 

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