Examples of toxic in the following topics:
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- The average television, for example, contains 4,000 toxic chemicals (200 of which emit hazardous fumes when the TV is turned on) and many buildings are insulated with formaldehyde-laden particleboard that heavily pollutes indoor air.
- If that isn't enough, of the over 8,000 chemicals used to dye clothes and fabric, less than 0.004% are actually considered non-toxic.
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- No manager wakes up and suddenly discovers that his or her business can no longer afford its raw materials, or that consumers will no longer tolerate wasteful practices and toxic products, or that a new law has made certain chemicals or dangerous forms of production illegal.
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- Manned spacecraft and submarines have been using them for decades because they don't produce toxic emissions and thirsty crews can drink the pure water emitted as a waste product.
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- Almost any substance, no matter how toxic or filthy, can be recycled in some way.
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- Similarly, when consumers buy home heating oil, most of them don't want to own and deal with a dirty, toxic and expensive liquid fossil fuel.
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- The city of Londonderry, New Hampshire, for example, became interested in eco-industrial parks after spending ten years and $13 million of taxpayer money cleaning up three toxic waste sites.
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- • Replace toxic or hazardous substances with non-toxic raw materials.
- Using safe and sustainable raw materials reduces raw materials costs, lowers the training expenses and danger of handling toxic substances and reduces waste disposal costs while avoiding resource depletion and environment destruction.
- For example, in the USA, a 3M plant saved $120,000 in capital investment – and $15,000 annually – by replacing the toxic solvents it used with water-based alternatives.
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- • Replace toxic or hazardous substances with non-toxic raw materials.
- Using safe and sustainable raw materials reduces raw materials costs, lowers the training expenses and danger of handling toxic substances and reduces waste disposal costs while avoiding resource depletion and environment destruction.
- For example, in the USA, a 3M plant saved $120,000 in capital investment – and $15,000 annually – by replacing the toxic solvents it used with water-based alternatives.
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- Similar waste legislation examples include the USA's Toxics Release Inventory, which some claim was America's first intelligent step toward waste legislation, take-back laws that make manufacturers legally responsible for their products after they've been sold to encourage reuse and remanufacturing technologies – and directives such as WEEE (Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment), which took effect in 2005 (designed to mitigate the incineration and dumping of electronic waste) and RoHS (the Restriction of Hazardous Substances), a 2006 law that bans electronic equipment containing certain levels of cadmium, lead, mercury and other toxic substances.
- Further regulations include the 2007 EUP directive (Energy Using Products), which requires producers to design and track products according to closed-loop waste reduction practices, and the REACH authorization (the directive on Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals), which requires manufacturers to publicly display toxicity data and to prove that the chemicals used to make products are safe.17 Additionally, the 2008/98/EU directive, which went into effect in December of 2009, categorizes waste prevention as a first priority, resource reuse as a second priority, and makes material recovery, in almost all its forms, mandatory.
- In addition, valuable storage space that once held toxic cleaners is now a thing of the past for Tennant's customers.
- For example, the EPA estimates that it will take $1 trillion to clean up America's trichloroethylene residues (trichloroethylene is a toxic substance used to remove grease from metal) and that $100 billion is spent in the USA on medical expenses related to polluted air alone.
- (Johns Hopkins University, ‘Prescription Drug Pollution May Harm Humans and Aquatic Life', Science Daily April 11, 2002) Researchers in Canada found a dozen different toxic drugs in water samples taken from the St.