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Threats by industrial sector
• This listing comes from the NSBEAP.
Agriculture
Aircraft
Automotive
Chemicals
Construction
Die Casting
Dry Cleaning
Electric/Power/Energy
Electronics/Computers
Electroplating
Fiberglass Operations
Foods
Furniture
General Small Business
Hospitals/Medical
Iron and Steel
Laboratories/Schools
Lubricants
Lumber and Wood
Machining
Marine/Shipyard
Metal Finishing
Metal Products
Mining
Painting and Coating
Pesticides
Petroleum Refining
Pharmaceuticals
Plastics
Printing and Photoprocessing
Pulp and Paper
Recreation
Recycling
Retail
Rubber
Solvents/Cleaning
Stone/Clay/Glass/Concrete
Used Oil
Threat assessment
Contents of this page :
· Threats by industrial sector
Also see the Threats to biodiversity page.
What constitutes an environmental threat? That's a surprisingly difficult question, one that will elicit
different answers from the government official, the activist, the librarian, or the philosopher.
One principal classification schemes is listed below; some links to relevant pages at EarthWeb.info
are integrated into the listings below, but this is a work in progress.
There are many ways to classify environmental threats; one example is this
informal listing of environmental threats by WWF.
For a different way of thinking about environmental threats, see the Data & Methodology page of the
Ecological FootPrint Network.