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- From: rajat@sunny3.che.clarkson.edu (Rajat Kapoor)
- Subject: Motor Oil Disposed Exceeds Exxon Valdez
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.033603.13336@news.clarkson.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:36:03 GMT
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- From article <4861@equinox.unr.edu>, by whitbeck@equinox.unr.edu (Michael Whitbeck):
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-
- > I suppose a distinction should be made between commercial oil
- > products (e.g. light lube oil) and crude oil. I guess most folk
- > assumed you meant crude- most often associated with major spills.
-
- I learnt an eye-opening fact from a science program (or maybe news)
- aired over Canadian TV, that the total amount of motor oil disposed off by
- Canadians far exceeds Exxon Valdez spill or the one during
- Gulf war.
-
- The program also showed shots of shut-down waste-oil recovery units in
- dilapidated state - reason : uneconomical to run.
-
- This isn't a Canadian problem, I bet similar figures exist for
- many countries.
-
- Kapoor
- >
-