NEWS
Royal commission reports on GEO releases...
ICI stops North Sea dumping... Contaminated land...
Consumers want UK food safety agency...
ICI to build Taiwan plant... World methanol market...
Petrochemicals restructuring... Food irradiation
test found... Enimont receives assets... 430
NEWS REPORTS
Czech chemicals
Recently new laws were passed in Czechoslovakia to
make joint ventures with foreign partners easier to
set up. Ferry Biedermann reports on the INCHEBA
international chemical fair held in Bratislava last
month and the effects of perestroika on the Czech
chemical industry. 436
US air pollution
Last month President George Bush announced his
initiatives for Combating acid rain, toxic air
pollutants and urban smog in the USA. Lois Ember
explains how these proposals will effect the US
chemical industry. 437
RECYCLING
Plastics Recycling Takes Off in the USA
Plastics recycling is booming in the USA; it is
practical, environmentally sound, cosr effective and
potentially profitable. In the first of two articles
Charles Kline outlines the US plastics industry's
preliminary efforts at recycling. 440
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Environmental Quality Objectives and Effluent
Control
Rex Agg and Thomas Zabel of the Water Research Centre
discuss the UK's approach to the control of dangerous
substances in the aquatic environment. 443
ECOLOGICAL MONITORING
Aquatic Toxicity of Complex Effluents
With the increasing demand for environmental
protection, a better understanding of the effects
of complex mixtures on the aquatic ecosystem is
needed. Richard Lloyd of MAFF's Directorate of
Fisheries Research discusses the application and
limitations of effluent bioassays to this problem. 449
PERKIN MEDAL ADDRESS
The Roots of Innovation
Union Carbide's Frederick Karol explores the idea of
innovation by drawing upon his own experience in the
development of the Unipol polyethylene process. 454
COMMUNICATIONS TO THE EDITOR
Enantioselective microbial reduction of ferrocene
aldehyde with baker's yeast.
Taeko Izumi, Toshimi Hino, Kezo Shoji,
Kenryo Sasaki and Akira Kashara 457
Shipping container floors as sources of chlorophenol
contamination in non-hermetically sealed foods.
Frank B.Whitfield, T.H.Ly Nguyen and
C.Ross Tindale 458
Acid-catalysed hydrolysis of ketone semicarbazones.
Edmund J.Eisenbraun, Robert P.Wesley,
Ronald S.Budhram and Brahmadeo Dewprashad 459
HIGHLIGHTS
Cycloaddition reactions... useful results with
reagents based on titanium, boron, zinc and
sulphur... approaches to the polyether brevetoxins...
the interplay of axial and planar chirality in
ferrocenyl ligands... reactions of borohydride with
tantalum complexes... activation of Si-H bonds. 461
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