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There has been an increasing recognition that many environmental efforts of the past have succeeded only in transferring pollution from one medium to another — from water to air, or from air to solid waste. It has become clear that more holistic approaches to solving environmental problems are needed. The emphasis on pollution prevention has led those in industry and government to look beyond their own fences at the causes of pollution both upstream and downstream from the production process — during the entire life cycle of products and their constituents.
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Todd, J.A. (1999). Environmental Impact in a Life-Cycle Framework: Practical Approaches for Decision Making. In: Sikdar, S.K., Diwekar, U. (eds) Tools and Methods for Pollution Prevention. NATO Science Series, vol 62. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4445-2_10
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