Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along with curbing energy use, companies can take a hard look at the amount of waste they generate. Increasingly stringent environmental regulations have made it ever more expensive to clean up smokestacks and reduce releases of toxic chemicals. Thus, limiting factory waste can save money while it helps preserve the surrounding environment. Since 1975, the 3M company has cut its waste discharges in half by redesigning equipment, streamlining manufacturing processes and selling or reusing materials that used to be discarded. By not having to deal with that waste, 3M has so far saved $300 million...
Whatever actions a company takes to help the environment should apply to foreign operations as well as those in the U.S. In too many cases, corporations have complied with antipollution measures at home but ignored them abroad, especially in Third World countries that are too desperate for foreign investment to...
Coalition members plan to monitor which companies abide by the Valdez Principles and to publicize the findings. In that way, environmentally conscious citizens would be able to decide which firms are best to buy products from, invest in and work for. If this strategy succeeds, companies will find that protecting the environment will be the best way to protect profits...
Because of its prestige, the U.S. has the potential to do enormous good in promoting international treaties to heal the planet. Agreements like the 1987 Montreal Protocol, governing the release of ozone-damaging gases, serve the important function of reassuring nations that protecting the environment will not put them at...
...follow-up to our Jan. 2, 1989, Planet of the Year issue, TIME invited 14 environment experts and policymakers to Alexandria, Va., for a one-day conference. Its aim was twofold: to take stock of the environmental progress that had been made around the world during the year, and to develop an agenda for the future. This special report sums up our conclusions -- and some proposals for action...