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Information Resource Guide to Chemical Hazardous Wastes in the Environment

Collection Building

ISSN: 0160-4953

Article publication date: 1 February 1981

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Abstract

According to the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Toxic Substances, there are some 70,000 chemical compounds manufactured or processed at approximately 115,000 sites across the U.S. About 1,000 new chemical compounds are introduced every year and many of these are unquestionably toxic to human, animal, or plant life.

Citation

Armao, R.J. (1981), "Information Resource Guide to Chemical Hazardous Wastes in the Environment", Collection Building, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023058

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1981, MCB UP Limited

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