Plastics and the Environment

Plastics and the Environment
Author: I. Boustead
Publisher: iSmithers Rapra Publishing
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1994
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781859570166

Plastics possess some special characteristics but most of the potential environmental problems and their solutions are common to other materials and industries. This review considers their environmental impact in terms of industrial systems (e.g. eco-profile and life-cycle systems), and looks at energy consumption and recovery, as well as recycling. An additional indexed section containing several hundred abstracts from the Rapra Polymer Library database provides useful references for further reading.

Stratospheric Ozone Damage and Legal Liability

Stratospheric Ozone Damage and Legal Liability
Author: Lisa Elges
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317234189

While government enforcement of laws and regulations to control the production of chloroflurocarbons in 1987 has been hailed as exemplifying the precautionary principle, for almost two decades US companies failed to take precautionary measures to prevent chemical emissions, despite the probable risk of stratospheric ozone loss. As a result, human harms in the form of skin cancer have reached epidemic proportions globally and in the United States where, today, one person dies every hour from skin cancer. This book reviews U.S. laws, regulations, and policies, as well as case law regarding similar toxic tort cases to consider whether companies can and should be held legally liable under tort common law theories and related tort justice theories for having contributed to increased risks of skin cancer.