Environmental Dispute-Resolution Process

One aspect of environmental disputes on which most commentators agree is that the issues surrounding them are highly complex. Citing the limited information and limited understanding under which consumer, government, and industry interest groups act and react to environmental issues, Stuller explores the myriad difficulties of recycling plastic packaging and wastes versus allowing them to degrade, noting that even environmentalists do not uniformly agree on the "best" way to recycle plastics. There is a kind of internecine rivalry between interests that wish to be considered pro-environment. Meanwhile, states have rushed to regulate disposal of "environmentally friendly" packaging, although most state laws deal with "only a small portion of the problems surrounding the idea of environmentally friendly products and packaging" (1990, p. 42). The paradoxical good news is that enormous business opportunities exist in plastics recycling because there is a seemingly permanent supply of plastic waste available in the world.

Where environmentally complex issues tread, economic issues are not far behind. This has historically

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he first time. The result was a commitment to review of the entire process by which land- and water-use decisions were made in the country. More generally, Weisskopf (1990) charts the gradual evolution of environmental interest groups, from the social activism and confrontational politics of the 1960s, fed by such watersheds as the Cuyahoga River's catching fire in Cleveland in 1962 and Rachel Carson's publication of Silent Spring, to the more mainstream, litigious, and mediational activities of such organizations as the National Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation, Wilderness Society, and National Audubon Society. In this regard, Weisskopf notes that the socioeconomic standing of members of mainstream environmental groups in the modern period (white, urban, middle-class) is roughly equivalent to regulatory and corporate entities with which such groups come in contact and/or conflict. To put it another way, the politics of confrontation and media savvy among adversarial groups have influenced the politics of collaboration,and confluence among regulatory bodies, which appears to have had the effect of inuring to the benefit of the public, or at least to public awareness of environmental
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