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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . When Love Canal broke into headlines in 1978, American manufacturers must have suffered nightmare visions of themselves noosed up to lamp posts by vigilante mobs. The present generation of manufacturing plants is based upon inefficient technologies that produce enormous quantities of waste, and not much can be done about that until America rebuilds its factories, which happens once every 50 years or so. Until a new industrial apparatus can be constructed, based upon closed- loop technology with zero discharge as its design goal, the old plants will continue spewing industrial poisons into the environment. While Superfund and RCRA have accomplished some good by raising awareness of these problems, they have also built a wall of government sponge around the guilty parties, insulating them from direct confrontation with the affected publics.