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Read this, and bear it in mind the next time you open a bottle of wine.
http://www.winedine.co.uk/page.php?cid=939
Seems that the wine makers don't want to control their emissions, even tho they could probably do so a lot easier than a lot of other industries.
I think it was 3M that revamped their processes at some of their plants with the idea of using less dangerous chemicals, and recycling the ones they do use, and ended up saving money in the long run. Someone had to make a heck of a sales pitch to the corporate big boys to make that happen.
There are many kinds of pollutants, greenhouse gasses, etc. that we could be dealing with using the best brains among our scientists, a little of the profits from the companies doing the polluting, and some backbone from our politicians. Congress told the auto industries to make our cars burn less fuel, burn it cleaner, etc. and it took about 15 years, but it did happen.
That same kind of action is needed from congress in nearly every industry out there. I can go just a few blocks from my house and see where a small golf cart business has been pouring battery acid on the ground, or a little further to a junk yard where they seem to forget to drain the fluids from the cars before putting them out in the yard. IT is a self pull yard, and I see a LOT of oil, antifreeze, tranny fluid, etc. dumped on the ground. They don't even collect the air conditioning refrigerant. Nearly all of those fluids can be recycled, but unless our government gets out there and fines these companies, it ain't gonna happen.
http://www.winedine.co.uk/page.php?cid=939
Seems that the wine makers don't want to control their emissions, even tho they could probably do so a lot easier than a lot of other industries.
I think it was 3M that revamped their processes at some of their plants with the idea of using less dangerous chemicals, and recycling the ones they do use, and ended up saving money in the long run. Someone had to make a heck of a sales pitch to the corporate big boys to make that happen.
There are many kinds of pollutants, greenhouse gasses, etc. that we could be dealing with using the best brains among our scientists, a little of the profits from the companies doing the polluting, and some backbone from our politicians. Congress told the auto industries to make our cars burn less fuel, burn it cleaner, etc. and it took about 15 years, but it did happen.
That same kind of action is needed from congress in nearly every industry out there. I can go just a few blocks from my house and see where a small golf cart business has been pouring battery acid on the ground, or a little further to a junk yard where they seem to forget to drain the fluids from the cars before putting them out in the yard. IT is a self pull yard, and I see a LOT of oil, antifreeze, tranny fluid, etc. dumped on the ground. They don't even collect the air conditioning refrigerant. Nearly all of those fluids can be recycled, but unless our government gets out there and fines these companies, it ain't gonna happen.