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Treatment requirements imposed on individual firms were seen as the most direct response to pollution problems. In the climate of the early 1970s, and given the lack of regional institutions in place, the desire to minimize compliance costs and use taxes to meet ambient goals was less strongly felt. This is one explanation for the quantity-based regulatory system we have in place to this day. To understand some of the other explanations, it is necessary to describe the characteristics of a tax system in more detail. Before doing so, mention should also be made. | The other side of apple II pollution SPREADS through Apple s supply chain Friends of Nature Institute of Public Environmental Affairs Green Beagle Envirofriends Green Stone Environmental Action Network Cover Photo by Chuong Nguyen Executive Summary In the report titled The Other Side of Apple published January 20th 2011 a coalition of environmental organizations brought to light problems of pollution and poisoning in Apple s supply chain in China. Yet to this day Apple has systematically failed to respond to all queries regarding their supply chain environmental violations. Faced with an ever evasive Apple a group of Chinese NGOs decided to dig deeper and carry out further investigations into the environmental problems that exist within Apple s supply chain. Through five months of research and field investigations we have found that the pollution discharge from this 300 billon dollar company has been expanding and spreading throughout its supply chain and has been seriously encroaching on local communities and their surrounding environments. Figure 1 Mapping of some suspected Apple suppliers 2 Through our investigations we discovered that the pollution from some of Apple s suppliers had already caused severe damage to the environment. Amongst these companies is the Meiko Electronics plant in Guangzhou a suspected PCB supplier to Apple Inc. This company had previously schemed to conceal their environmental violations. However this plan was foiled by the Environmental Protection Department. Within just a few months this company was penalized for more than ten violations. Furthermore the amount discharged from the Meiko Electronics PCB plant in Wuhan is even more than that at the plant in Guangzhou. The neighboring lake named Nantaizi or Southern Prince is seriously contaminated. Through third party monitoring the water in the discharge channel to the side of the company s premises was found to contain heavy metals including copper and nickel which are standard .

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