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EPA eyeing plastics emission loophole.(News)

By Toloken, Steve
Publication: Waste News
Date: Monday, October 14 2002

Byline: Steve Toloken

Several Environmental Protection Agency regional offices want to crack down on emissions of six cancer-causing chemicals in the plastics foam and resin manufacturing industries, with an initial focus on vinyl chloride monomer.

The EPA's initiative is aimed at what government officials call ``media shifting'' - a regulatory loophole that lets companies move emissions from one medium, such as air, to another, such wastewater treatment, either to avoid tough emission requirements or as a byproduct of complying with regulations.

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