ABSTRACT
Our task here is to identify ethical issues pertinent to the sltmg and management of hazardous waste facilities. Yet ethics, like whales and dirigibles, come only in large packages. The type of ethical issue which is likely to arise over the siting of a hazardous waste facility may very well be part and parcel of a much greater complex of competing cultural and moral values. It is this greater complex of competing values which will be the primary concern of this chapter, especially the tension between the common good and our reverence for individual freedom.
