The holiday season is coming:
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s.
I am asking the corporate
leaders who claim aggressive recycling programs and zero waste to landfills to
think during this holiday season in terms of zero hazardous waste and zero
regulated waste to landfills.
I would bet my Halloween
pumpkin that no corporation wants to admit the extent of their hazardous or
regulated waste environmental liabilities or even the fact that they have
asbestos or any other hazardous or regulated wastes in their facilities and/or
stored in landfills, a huge negative to the corporate bottom line!
I give presentations and
demonstrations of my process that stops asbestos cradle-to-grave liability and
I thought you might be interested in some of the corporate feedback I received.
Environmental Manager,
Major City Utility: “Our CEO will be retired by the time this comes back to
haunt us.”
Senior Vice President Legal
and General Council of one of the largest oil and refinery companies in the
world: “I spoke to our environmental department and they said it’s not
necessary to destroy our asbestos, we landfill it.” Not a wise decision.
Head Environmental Attorney
for a major Fortune 500 company: “The next building we buy with asbestos, we’ll
call you.” I walked away and asked myself what about all the asbestos you
presently have in all your many facilities around the world?
My favorite: I was asked to
speak at an Asbestos Litigation Conference. Asbestos litigation is a
multibillion dollar industry that the legal profession possibly spends more
money on advertisement than Coca Cola. Why in God’s name would asbestos
litigation lawyers want to hear from me, when maybe I can start to solve the
asbestos problem? They really didn’t. It was my turn to speak, the moderator,
an attorney, purposely used up my time leaving me two minutes. I saw this
coming so I rapped off all the positives about ridding our environment of
asbestos. He then made this brilliant remark: “I suppose you can turn water
into gold?”
Thus the holidays:
Halloween: If you think of
hazardous and regulated wastes as Halloween with forever haunting ghosts make
no mistake about it, the ghosts of these hazardous and regulated wastes will
haunt the corporations through eternity unless these corporations do something
about it.
Thanksgiving: It will be a
great Thanksgiving in a new world when these wastes are out of our environment
by aggressive corporate initiatives
Christmas and Hanukkah: The gift of Christmas and Hanukkah to all
will be technological solutions to the hazardous and regulated waste problems
with rigorous implementation of these technologies mandated by corporate
leaders.
The New Year: Solving these
problems will provide a myriad of New Years with corporate sustainability and
corporate financial stability through many generations, and most importantly, a
glorious future of a healthy environment for our families, our children and our
grandchildren.
