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High-Tech Pollution—A Historical Survey of Problems Generated by the High-Tech Industries

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Rick Puppo is a gardener who lives in Los Paseos, San Jose, California. When I visited him one evening, he was watching a baseball game on the television (TV) with his sons. His family is typically American. On the table, however, was a small bottle of heart disease tablets, which his younger son, Brian, has to take everyday.

Originally published in Economic Journal of Hokkaido University (Sapporo, 1994) 23:73–138. This is a revised version of High-Tech Pollution (Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 1989) [in Japanese]; although the material may seem a little out-of-date, it is essential background to the presentday issues of industrial pollution [Chapter 5].

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Yoshida, F. (2002). High-Tech Pollution—A Historical Survey of Problems Generated by the High-Tech Industries. In: The Economics of Waste and Pollution Management in Japan. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-67032-2_5

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