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An
insanely large
chemical company in England, whose full name is
Imperial Chemicals Industries
. Last year, they made roughly £6.1bn in
revenue
, which at current rates is around $9.378bn. Which, needless to say, is a
metric fuckload
of money.
ICI was formed in 1926 in a merger between the four largest chemical companies in Britain:
Brunner, Mond
;
Nobel Industries
;
British Dyestuffs
; and
United Alkali
. Brunner made fertilizers and
soda ash
, Nobel
explosives
, British Dyestuffs dyes and United Alkali
soda ash
.
ICI seem willing to cane the environment at any cost. Their plant at
Runcorn
, which
electrolyses
brine
, uses 1% of all Britain's electricity. I repeat, 1%. That's enough for roughly 270,000 people. ICI's subsidiary companies are the real heavy hitters though-ICI has dumped
naphthalene
in the
Parana River
, Argentina and
phthalates
in Homebush Bay,
New South Wales
, Australia. Both of these chemicals like to accumulate in places and poison things, making this a major bad thing.
The company has since scaled back the
heavy industry
portions of its operations, and is focusing on its burgeoning
Dulux
paint company and the various companies they acquired off of
Unilever
. This should reduce their negative impacts upon the environment, which while
not as bad as they could be
are still pretty damn bad. See also
General Electric
.
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chaos
General Electric
Les comptines de Passe-Partout
consumption
Love Canal
Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers
Dulux
Nestor Makhno and Ukrainian anarchism
Nous
Runcorn
May 10, 2005
vegetarianism
metric system
Peru
Phthalate
Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd.
ICQ
potassium hydrogen phthalate
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