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 A house that recycled plastic builtBrazil bar owner Celio de Oliveira lives in a house built from thousands
of empty plastic bottles. Light switches are made from bottle tops. He started collecting
thrown away bottles in a bid to clear a nearby beach.
Ananova Website
Pollution free? Think again
$1.2 billion has been cleared to make a "pollution-free" hydrogen powered
"freedom car". However up to 90% of all its hydrogen will be refined from the
burning of fossil fuels. So much for freedom from pollution!
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Make way for the plastic road
A 1.2 km stretch road was built near Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu using plastic waste
blended with bitumen and rock aggregate. Plastic improves bonding and makes the roads
survive the monsoons better. Now if only the rest of the country adapted this, it would
kill two birds with one stone.Good News India Website |
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The colour of noise pollution Red, green & yellow could soon denote noise pollution levels.
Noise-labelling of consumer goods is likely to come into effect in India in 2004, in a
move to promote a quieter
environment.
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world’s first Supercow Australian researchers took genes from the
world’s most renowned cow families to produce "supercows", with potential
milk yields thrice the national average. "A more efficient cow is also a more
environmentally friendly cow — that is, less land for more milk," said a
researcher.
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| EYE OPENING ECOFACT |
 Pills for pigs
Nearly 50% of US antibiotics are given to
animals, not people. Antibiotics in animals lead to more powerful disease germs, so this
practice may breed a dangerous "supergerm".
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