The united states environmental protection agency combustion research facility: A commitment to hazardous waste management

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-206
Author(s):  
Richard A. Carnes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Hazardous Waste ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
The United States ◽  
Protection Agency ◽  
Research Facility ◽  
Hazardous Waste Management

scholarly journals Hidden Externalities: The Globalization of Hazardous Waste

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone M. Müller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Hazardous Waste ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global South ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Protection Agency ◽  
The U.S

This article focuses on chemical retailers Jack and Charles Colbert to, first, show the externalization processes linked to the greening of U.S. industry through stricter consumer and environmental protection regulations and, second, illustrate the limitations of nationally framed environmentalism targeting businesses in a global market. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Colberts traded chemicals that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had banned for use in the United States. They exported them legally to countries where the material was still a permitted commodity—primarily in the global South. Rare interview material illustrates how the exporters justified their unequal business deals by misappropriating the meaning of recycling.

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