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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . Everybody talks about pollution prevention, but almost no one does anything about it. Of course there are individuals who take recycling seriously and who adopt lifestyles that will minimize their personal contribution to the destruction of the planet. Industries typically build expensive treatment plants to remove toxic chemicals from process wastewater, rather than developing processes that either don't create toxic residues or that recycle them for in-plant use. Similarly, incineration is proposed as a solution to landfill shortages rather than municipal regulations to reduce disposable packaging or boost the use of refillable beverage containers.