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Toxic waste stuff - what companies?
16 November 1989
To: Toxics Acitivsts
Fm: Greenpeace Toxics Campaign
Re: Nominations for National Waste Audits
In May, 1989, Greenpeace published "A Citizens' Toxic Waste
Audit Manual." This useful handbook describes how to conduct
pollution audits on polluting companies, and how to use those
audits to force the companies to reform. [The guide is available
from Greenpeace, 1017 W Jackson Blvd., Chicago IL 60607. A $5.00
donation is appreciated.]
We are nominating the following companies for waste audits. If
you are interested in executing waste audits of any of these
companies, please contact Ben Gordon through the mail section of
Environet.
Perhaps a company that is polluting your community is on the
list below.
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The following companies, each of which have more than $200
million in annual chemical sales, seem to be likely candidates:
The 30 largest basic chemical companies are listed below in order of
sales volume:
Dow Chemical
Union Carbide
Monsanto
W.R. Grace
American Cyanamid
Hercules
Air Products
Arco Chemical
Rohm & Haas
Ethyl
B.F. Goodrich
Olin
Quantum Chemical
Cabot
Witco
International Minerals
Lubrizol
Nalco Chemical
Georgia Gulf
Aristech
Great Lakes Chemical
International Flavors
H.B. Fuller
Vista Chemical
Chemed
Betz Laboratories
Loctite
First Mississippi
Crompton & Knowles
Petrolite
The 11 largest diversified manufacturers, in order of sales volume,
are as follows:
Du Pont
Tenneco
3M
Allied-Signal
Borden
PPG Industries
FMC
Engelhard
Vulcan Materials
Ferro Corp.
NL Industries
The 10 largest pharmaceutical companies, in order of sales volume, are
as follows (these companies do not necessarily have annual chemical
sales of $200 million or more):
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Baxter International
Merck
American Home Products
Pfizer
Warner Lambert
Schering-Plough
Upjohn
A.H. Robins
Rorer Group
The 12 largest oil and gas companies, in order of decreasing sales
volume, are as follows:
Exxon
Mobil
Texaco
Chevron
Shell Oil
Amoco
Occidental
Unocal
Sun Co.
Ashland
Kerr-McGee
American Petrofina
[Source: W.J. Storck, "Chemical Earnings Turn Down in Third Quarter,"
Chemical & Engineering News, Vol. 67, No. 46, November 13, 1989, pp.
8-13]
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