Engineering News, September 6, 1971, 12a); With the use of
ment technology, the waste discharge during production of these two chem—
icals contains .5 pound of free—oating oil and 9 pounds of dissolved solids per
1000 pounds of ethylene produced and .1 pound of free-oating oil and 6
pounds of dissolved solids per 1000 pounds of propylene produced {Summary
Report on the Organic Chemicals Industry, The Industrial Wastes Studies Pro—
gram,
Environmental Protection Agency, Ofce of Water Programs, Division
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of Applied Technology, Washington, D.C., january 31, 1972).
[17]
Cost of Clean Water, Volume II: Cost Eectiveness and Clean Water, Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, D.C.: US. Government Printing
Ofce, March 1971), p. 64.
[18] William Whipple, ]r., “BOD Mass Balance and Water Quality Standards,”
Water Resources Research, [une 1970, Vol. 4, No. 3, 827—37.
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[19] Kevin P. Shea, “The New—Car Smell,” Environment, October 1971, Vol. 13,7
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No. 8, 2—9.
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[20] Julian McCaull, “Building a Shorter Life,” Environment September
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13, No. 7, 2—14 and 38—41.
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[21] The complex interrelationships between technology, pollution, and-economic
motivation are explored by Barry Commoner in The Cbsing*Circle“(New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.)
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