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Substituting for harmful products
Synonyms:
Finding substitutes for environmental pollutants
Broader:
Substituting for scarce resources
Protecting against hazardous products
Substituting for dangerous substances
Ensuring environmentally responsible production
Introducing environmentally sound products
Narrower:
Improving wood preservatives to protect the environment
Making home-made environmentally friendly household products
Facilitates:
Preventing pollution
Designing for environment
Facilitated by:
Bluffing
Subsidizing pollution control
Applying environmental chemistry
Motivating anti-pollution concern
Investigating potentially hazardous products wastes
Coordinating research activities on the mechanisms of action of toxic chemicals
Developing pollution control technologies
Providing full cost accounting of consumer products
Problems:
Inappropriate substitution of artificial products
Reduction in demand for primary commodities due to technological change
Values:
Harm
Pollution
References:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Substitute Fuels for Road Transport: a technology assessment
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe: Substitutes for Tripolyphosphate in Detergents
Subjects:
Environment
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Products
Societal Problems
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Hazards
Societal Problems
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Pollution
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals: