Show P People Must Sh Share r Costs The roster of communities beginning to feel the economic bite of pollution control is growing As it grows public realization will win grow that achieving a alean lean clean environment entails public responsibility responsibility si as Well well as the e private obligation of businesses and industries The Asheville North Carolina Time reports' reports o on the the closing of a manufacturing manufacturing turing operation in Massachusetts The plant could not afford t to build buDd a private waste aste t nor could it join in a municipal sewage treatment project bec because use the town tow 1 is served d only by septic tanks tank and the citizens have resisted d municipal m sewage treatment nt since 1943 As a result the town lost an year a-year payroll As the Times points out ut the payroll of the plant could have been little from saved with a cooperation the taxpayers in the form of a bond issue to build a municipal sewage treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment plant When any business is forced to close for environmental reasons opportunities jobs jobs' and tax revenue go down the drain This is the price that must be paid when the public fails to accept its share of the responsibility for meeting the environmental up clean-up bill |