Bruce Piasecki, in The Washington Monthly (Jan.Toxic Wastes 1983), 2712 Ontario Rd. N.W., Washing- ton, D.C. 20009.
After the 1978 Love Canal scandal in Niagara Falls, New York, federal and state agencies hastened to tighten regulation of toxic-waste dumps. Yet some Western European countries have discovered that detoxifying chemical by-products makes more sense than dumping them.
American industry generates some 77 billion pounds of toxic waste -sulfuric acid, mercury, cyanide-every year. Eighty...