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From: Fred Friedman (FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV)
Date: Mon Jun 30 1997 - 10:23:00 EDT 

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 97 15:23 WET DST
From: FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV (Fred Friedman)
Subject: Re: Recycling hazardous waste (Steven Teoh)

June 30, 1997

Dear Steven Teoh,

In the US there was a total of 2,791.4 million pounds of pollution to land, air and water created in 1993. That is as close as I can take you directly to what you seek.
The EPA s Toxics Release Inventory should have a land pollution categorical aggregate figure. However, this is just for manufacturing and doesn t include most agriculture, mining, and other classifications of waste such as Industrial D wastes .
In terms of world wide aggregation, only two sources may have done this:

- the World Bank
- the United Nations Environmental Programme

Not everything is quantified, nor should it be.

- Research Library for RCRA

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