Is It Best Way to Spend Limited Funds? Economist Says:
Cost of Pollution Control Must Be Weighed With Other Needs
Getting rid of pollution in one
respect often creates other un
desirable effects, says Dr.
ABS Appoints Cartel
Harland E. Carter has been
appointed District Sales Coor
dinator, according to an an
nouncement by Willard A.
Krueger, vice president of
Marketing for American
Breeders Service, Inc., a sub
sidiary of W. R. Grace & Co.
Carter’s territory is composed of
northcentral Pennsylvania and
he will be assisting ABS District
Sales Manager, William Berg of
Muncy, Pa., in the business
developments m this area.
DUAL PURPOSE GRAIN BINS
1972 SPECIAL EARLY ORDER DISCOUNT
JANUARY SAVE 7 PER CENT
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MARCH SAVE 5 PER CENT
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Donald J. Epp, Pennsylvania
State University agricultural
economist.
Dr. Epp finds this “trade-off”
between alternatives may exist
in four aspects—a trade-off
between environmental quality
and other needs, a trade-off
between geographical areas, a
trade-off within the various parts
of the environment, and a trade
off in degrees of environmental
cleanliness
Just as a family must
sometimes choose betwen
alternatives, society must make
choices in the kinds of pollution it
accepts, he stated recently.
“I think we will face rather
quickly the trade-off between
environmental quality and other
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needs,” he declared at the annual
meeting of the Cooperative
Extension Service at Penn State.
As an example, he described a
Nursery Meeting Set
A Southeast Pennsylvania
Nrusery meeting will be held
Thursday, January 6, at the
Holiday Inn, Goddard Boulevard,
King of Prussia
The program begins at 130
p m. with a welcome from James
K Rathmell Jr.
Speakers and their topics will
include: “Dogwoods,” Robert
MacDonald, director of Tyler
Arboretum, “Green Carpets” by
Dr J.R. Nuss, Penn State
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Pennsylvania city under orders
to upgrade its sewage treatment
facilities so that a stream now
contaminated will meet stan-
University Extension ornamental
horticulturist, ‘‘Systemic
Fungicides” by Professor L P
Nichols, Penn State Extension
plant pathologist, “Fertilizing
Ornamentals, Fact or Fancy,”
Dr Nuss, “Plants and the
Computer” by MacDonald, and
“English Nurseries” by Rath
mell
Following the meal at 6 p m ,
Rathmell will speak on
“European Nurseries ”
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 1,1972
dards for swimming and other
contact water sports At hearings
involving the situtation, a con
sultant testified that the city
could build 10 olympic-size
swimming pools annually for the
cost of improving water treat
ment facilities
Citizens of this and similar
communities will ask the
question, “How do we get-the
most benefit from spending the
moneys” Dr Epp pointed out In
such cases, however, the people
are not allowed a choice since
standards indicate the stream
must be cleaned up
“As we at Penn State continue
working on environmental
problems, we must make known
the alternative ways of getting
whatever benefits people want
(rom the environment These are
as important as knowledge of the
standards fcr environmental
quality,” he affirmed
Dr Epp described a Federal
government estimate of $lO5 2
billion needed over the next 6
years to clean up the en
vironment thoroughly This
amounts to about $l7 5 billion
annually
People will ask whether this is
the best way to spend the money
They may point out that this
money could double expenditures
of all state and local governments
lor police protection, correctional
institutions, and public
assistance, he observed
The $l7 5 billion is about two
thirds of what the nation spends
annually for all public elemen
tary and secondary schools A
two-third increase in financing
lor school systems might im
prove communitites sub
stantially Cleaning up streams
could also improve communities
The people must decide which
expenditure will be made
The “(rade-off” in
geographical areas could prove
equally serious for some Penn
sylvania industries, he claimed
Certain industries may be
compelled to move elsewhere
because of high costs required to
meet strict environmental
standards Increased standards
for one stream receiving sewage
effluent from a paper mill will
raise production costs for sewage
treatment by $l7 80 per ton of
product This is almost six times
the current cost for sewage
treatment
Unless the company has other
advantages for remaining, they
will most likely move to another
state, Dr Epp predicted Is the
resulting improvement m en
vironmental quality worth the
loss of jobs, he asked This is a
“trade-off” that should be con
sidered
“Alternatives” between dif
ferent parts of the environment
were also discussed Cleaning up
raw sewage from a stream by
installing a sewage treatment
plant and then burning the
resulting sludge takes “dirt” out
of the water and puts it m the air.
Burning of refuse instead of
using land fill is another example
of “trade-off’ from soil and water
pollution to air pollution.
Dr. Epp said a fourth “trade
off” exists in degree or extent of
pollution. He claimed the natural
environment consists of various
degrees of cleanliness Pollution
is not strictly a man-made ac
tivity and the natural state en
vironment is not absolutely
clean
It is not necessarily true that
distilled water must run in every
stream before the natural en
vironment is cared for properly,
he affirmed Man can use the
environment to dispose of many
waste products and the en
vironment will clean it up —
provided the system is not
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