Environmental laws are becoming more widespread and stringent and, in many cases, being framed according to perceived (and not necessarily scientifically proved) environmental risks and public health hazards, says a report released by Metals and Minerals Research Services Ltd. London.
A concern raised by An Environmental Audit of the Base Metal Industries is that whether or not base metal producers can actually (or technically) meet the new environmental standards being proposed seems not now to be of primary concern to lawmakers.
Base metal producers (and users also, in the case of lead), the report says, are coming under scrutiny as never before, and the environmental legislation under which they have to — and will have to — operate is changing radically in many countries.
The report examines more than 400 individual pieces of environmental law and more than 300 decrees, orders, regulations and directives since mid-1991.
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