Pollution Prevention in the Metal Plating and Finishing Industry: Progress and Obstacles

摘要

this article reports the extent to which California firms in the metal plating and metal finishing in- dustry are using pollution prevention (waste reduction) methods, identifies obstacles to adoption of these methods, and examines relationships between rates of adoption and the characteristics of firms. One hundred and seventy firms actively engaged in metal plating and finishing in three areas of California responded to our detailed mail survey (overall response rate = 40.8/100). We asked firms About the amount of wastewater and sludge generated, costs of managing these wastes, total sales Revenues, the firm's awareness of each of 20 waste reduction (WR) methods, and what action it had Taken for each method it was aware of.