Best case scenario, it just moves the pollution around from one factory to another. It doesn’t really limit anything.

And the whole concept of lowering your carbon footprint to be able to sell the margin you have left to someone else is ridiculous.

Reducing the carbon footprint or limit pollutants from entering the environment often involves significant investment. You can’t just make your factory magically cleaner.

Believe it or not, properly disposing of chemicals is expensive! Most polluting happens because companies are trying to save money by dumping chemicals rather than disposing of them properly. Same with maintaining scrubbers or other air filtration systems.

This is the whole reason the EPA exists! To make it painfully expensive to pollute.