Many industry sectors have abatement professionals and consultants and there are even trade journals specializing in these things. Unfortunately the greatest abatement consultants are so busy that they generally cannot even return phone calls as they travel the world putting out fires and handling crisis management. The issues, which are most pressing are those dealing with multiple reactions caused by abatement procedures in one sector which affect another and the law of unintended consequences which occur.

For instance let us take an industry sector like a car wash, where you have an issue with reclaiming your water. Now you know you can buy bacteria to eat some of the waste water sludge, but when you do this it causes issues with smell. So then the customers are taken aback. Next you try masking to get rid of the smell and ozone in the gift shop at the car wash.

The ozone is problematic for indoor air pollution and the mask is only hiding the odor, meanwhile you have methane build up. No chance for fire, too much moisture in the air. Yet, have you even solved the first problem of abatement of the sludge and Mosquitoes laying larva in it? I mean you have bacteria eating the sludge, not the larva, making methane and now you are polluting the air for your customers and employees? I hope you can see my point of how an abatement consultant can drop the ball? Consider this in 2006.

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/