Less Is More : Toward A Zero Discharge Industry

How about creating an industry that emits no poisons into the environment? Direct action eco-heroine Diane Wilson has used civil disobedience to fight such chemical giants as Union Carbide and DuPont. She tried to sink her shrimp boat on Formosa Plastics toxic effluent pipe and won a zero discharge agreement. Professor of Environmental Engineering Jack Matson tells how chemical plants can and are achieving zero discharge. Elaine Ingham Ph.D., with nearly 25 years' experience in microbiology, botany, soil and ecology research, is Associate Research Professor in the Department of Forest Science at Oregon State University, and President and Director of Research at Soil Foodweb Inc., a small business that grew out of her University research program.  Bios:  Diane Wilson, mother of five and a fourth-generation fisherman on the Texas Gulf Coast, has used civil disobedience to fight such chemical giants as Union Carbide and DuPont. In l995 she won "zero discharge" agreements from Formosa Plas