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  • Hidden Externalities: The Globalization of Hazardous Waste

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  • Simone M. Müller
  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 93 / Issue 1 / Spring 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 May 2019, pp. 51-74
    Print publication:
    Spring 2019
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  • This article focuses on chemical retailers Jack and Charles Colbert to, first, show the externalization processes linked to the greening of U.S. industry through stricter consumer and environmental protection regulations and, second, illustrate the limitations of nationally framed environmentalism targeting businesses in a global market. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Colberts traded chemicals that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had banned for use in the United States. They exported them legally to countries where the material was still a permitted commodity—primarily in the global South. Rare interview material illustrates how the exporters justified their unequal business deals by misappropriating the meaning of recycling.