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Inks and Solvents: Sustainable or Not?
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GATFWORLD
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June 1, 2008
- Author:
- Duncan, Don P
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Copyright informationCopyright Graphic Arts Technical Foundation Jun 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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By now, most people are familiar with a definition of su stain ability coming from the U.N. Brundtland Commission in 1987: "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
This is a global concept. It goes way outside my walls (and your walls) in order to describe the flow of products from naturally occurring raw material base products (AKA "dirt") to fully biodegraded, end-of-life materials (AKA "dirt"). Optimizing a mini-process within our walls that causes the net effect (in the dirt-to-dirt view) to be worse is suboptimal, to say the least.
It's hard to overstate the amount of ...