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Appendix E<br />

releases with component chemical toxicities with production intensity of specific products. A<br />

primary result of the projects was the ability to rank products according to plant-specific<br />

chemical releases generated during their manufacture. The algorithm was able to quantitatively<br />

estimate reduction in individual pollutant releases if other processes has been available for<br />

manufacture of high toxic intensive products. The Bureau of Census researchers (CEO’s Report)<br />

emphasized in their report that “…the methodology can be applied to any industry, type of<br />

industrial waste, or pollution media.”<br />

The IPPS project has been developed into an ongoing project used by the World Bank to develop<br />

estimates of pollution intensities for various industries in developing nations based, primarily, on<br />

scale of specific industry activity <strong>and</strong> knowledge of processes used in production.<br />

Both of these projects have used available data to develop usable estimates of pollution intensity<br />

associated with industries <strong>and</strong>/or products manufactured. The techniques appear to be directly<br />

applicable to developing pollution priority considerations for the U.S. electronics industry,<br />

component (4-digit SIC) industries, <strong>and</strong>/or individual products produced within these component<br />

industries.<br />

The Meta Matrix consists of a “meta evaluation” of each of the identified sources in a structured<br />

format consisting of the following elements:<br />

1 Item identification<br />

2 Source<br />

3 Content<br />

4 Accessibility<br />

5 Cost factors<br />

6 Updating/modification/contemporary value<br />

7 Pertinence <strong>and</strong> value to the <strong>1996</strong> <strong>Roadmap</strong><br />

The matrix follows:<br />

1<br />

1 ITEM: Industrial Pollution Projection System (IPPS)<br />

2 SOURCE: World Bank (Internet: http://www.worldbank.org/html/research/ipps/)<br />

3 CONTENT: The IPPS was developed by the World Bank to assist in quantitatively estimating<br />

sources of industrial pollution in developing countries. The IPPS was developed by merging<br />

U.S. data derived from the Longitudinal Research Database (LRD) of the U.S. Department of<br />

Commerce (establishment-level economic data) with several databases (including the TRI<br />

database) maintained by the EPA associated with pollution emissions. The IPPS estimates<br />

pollution intensity associated with specific 4-digit SIC codes (U.S.) <strong>and</strong> 4-digit ISIC codes<br />

(internationally).<br />

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