Compound

Implementation Year

Recall Year

Damage Caused

Maximum Production

Regulation

Tetraethyl Lead

1920

1990

- Pollution

- Toxicity

7.2 × 109 L

Section 211 of the Clean Air Act

Asbestos (Barlow et al., 2017)

1850’s

2005

- Cancer

- Silicosis

- Asbestosis

5,000,000 ton

Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal

Polymers (Setzen, 2008)

1880’s

In use

Pollution

348,000,000 ton/year

Unfinished

Cromates (Coetzee et al., 2018)

1890’s

In use

- Cancer

- Pollution

18,000,000 ton/year

Unfinished

Chlorofluoro carbonates (Hoffman & Wells, 1989)

1928

1995

Degradation atmospheric ozone layer

1,200,000 ton

Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer