Computerized Waste Exchange

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Gordon Black looks at an industrial waste exchange network coordinated on computer systems. The network helps companies with industrial “waste” to find other companies which can use that material in their own production process. However, supply of waste products far exceeds demand, and some environmentalists fear that potentially harmful material is simply being moved from place to place rather than disposed of properly.

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