Green sand & the environment: the European scene.

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Special Report: International Metalcasting Trends

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Green sand & the environment: the European scene.

Environmental pressures on all aspects of industrial operations are high and are growing. For foundries in most Western European countries, there are national regulations which govern the internal working environment and others which control emissions to the external environment.

Much of the environmental legislation now being introduced in European countries originated in the regulations and directives issued by the European Community (EC). In 1987 the Single European Act amended the Treaty of Rome to include a section on the environment thereby establishing the legal status of the EC environmental policy. Based on this legislation, the EC has adopted the policy that "preventive action should be taken, that environmental damage should be rectified at the source and that the polluter should pay."

As each member state of the EC at present issues its own legislation on environm...

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