Table 2.5  Summary of Value of Selected Product Shipments and Receipts for Selected Services and Types of Construction Projects for Environmental or Potential Environmental Purposes by Media, 1995

  Value of product shipments Relative
  and receipts for services and standard
  types of construction projects error
             
    For Not for     For
 
For 
environ- environ-  
For 
environ-
Selected products, services, and all mental mental Purpose all mental
types of construction projects purposes purposes purposes unknown purposes purposes
             
  billions of constant (1992) dollars percent
             
Air treatment 5.57 5.47 0.08 0.03 15 15
Water & wastewater treatment 33.86 28.92 4.02 0.93 8 8
Solid waste 35.37 33.38 1.43 0.56 11 12
Energy conservation 7.10 2.28 4.54 0.28 14 11
Noise pollution control 1.36 0.16 1.16 0.04 41 43
Monitoring, assessment & analysis 15.85 4.99 5.67 5.19 26 19
Admin., management, engineering 55.51 5.84 48.90 0.78 27 18
Other 14.58 14.58 - - 25 25
             
Total 169.21 95.61 65.79 7.81 15 6

Source:  U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Survey of Environmental Products and Services (sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the International Trade Administration, and the Bureau of the Census) (DOC, Census, Washington, DC, 1998).

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