Scrap cars creating toxic waste
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As many as 1.5 million cars are being scrapped illegally in Britain every year, presenting a major environmental hazard.
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The transport sector is a major planet polluter but truckmakers in Sweden, where a clean environment has long been a top concern, are leading the way in climate-conscious production with eco-friendly plants.
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IT's positive environmental impact IT, on the face of it, is not very sustainable. New products are introduced in rapid development cycles that encourage wasteful frequent upgrade and replacement.â¦
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Microscopic plastic debris could be poisoning the world's oceans, according to a British team of scientists.
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Vendors worry about the impact on their own businesses. Also: Satellite radio car competition & hellip;. A Chinese car powered by bleach & hellip;. and more.
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A German-led study has discovered chemical catalysts that might lead to the use of stranded natural gas, large quantities of which is burned as waste.  Johannes Lercher and colleagues at the Technical University of Munich and the Dow Chemical Co.
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By LISA ARROWSMITH  EDMONTON (CP) - A toxic stew of chemicals from birth control pills, shampoo and even compounds used to make foam seating pours out of sewers and pipes across Canada every day, and hundreds of scientists say Ottawa must do more to stop it.
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Though banned in the 1970s, toxic PCBs persist in high concentrations around the world. Now a Stanford team says it may have the solution: carbon. By Amit Asaravala.
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ENVIROWISE, an environmental agency, has warned that computers generate as much as 60kg of factory waste - more than the machine actually weighs.
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Your car runs on poison, grain alcohol -- and mothballs. Check the ingredients in your tank. By Patrick Di Justo from Wired magazine.
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Silicone has been detected in petrol samples taken after complaints by drivers of cars breaking down.
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A scandal around the dumping of oil   waste blamed for eight deaths in Ivory Coast has given rare   insight into the world's murky trade in waste, much of it   toxic, in defiance of global trade laws.
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By LAURA KURTZMAN SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The six largest automakers asked a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit by California that accuses them of harming human health and the environment by producing vehicles that contribute to global warming.
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Science & environment: Concerns about adverse environmental impacts prompt review of drive to run vehicles on biofuels
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Diesel engines deliver great mileage but emit polluting gases.
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By Geoffrey Lean  Take one of the world's greatest waste problems, and turn it into one of the planet's most precious habitats. It seems a classic green win-win. But dumping used tyres in the sea to make artificial coral reefs has proved to be an environmental disaster.
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Blog: Add carbon dioxide, water, heat. Serves cars.