Using Sustainable Production Indicators to Measure Progress in ISO 14001, EHS System and EPA Achievement Track

Corporate Environmental Strategy

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 326-338

  Veleva, Vesela ^b   Bailey, Jack ^a   Jurczyk, Nicole ^c  

^a Acushnet Rubber Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0038798039     PISSN: 10667938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1066-7938(01)00138-5     Document Type: Article

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18. Environmental sinks relate to the assimilative capacity of ecosystems or their ability to absorb and eliminate the waste and residual byproducts of consumption and production (e.g. air and water purification, soil degradation).
19. This refers to the global employment trends and not the ones in the United States, where unemployment in the year 2000 reached its lowest point of 3.9% in 30 years.
20. The recycling facility in New Bedford stopped accepting waste rubber due to reduced demand for its product.