Practical Sustainability

摘要

When you have an organization like ASTM building international standards, it helps reduce market fragmentation that would otherwise occur. One thing that ASTM does really well is creating standards and bringing the world market together. When ASTM hasn’t taken the lead, regions put what they want in a standard, which then may be implemented in legislation. That legislation may be driven by organizations with the most money and commercial interests available to push that legislation. What then happens is you start barring certain technologies or products from getting into regions.