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Firms finding 'green' can mean cash, clean. (anti-pollution manufacturing processes could bring in more money)

Crain's Cleveland Business, January, 1993 by Mooney, Barbara

Manufacturing companies are starting to discover that the "greening" of their operations can result in more green flowing to their bottom lines. Federal laws such as the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 have mandated a host of new pollution prevention programs that many manufacturers originally bemoaned as too costly and burdensome.

But by minimizing pollution, a number of companies are realizing they also can save money. For those managers who already have taken to heart the concept of TQM, or total quality management, as a way to improve efficiency, it's time to turn the page to P2 -- which, in the parlance of environmental engineers, stands for pollution prevention. Lawrence C. Boyd, director of the Environmental Services Program of the Cleveland Advanced...

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