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Your loft is filled with half-used paint cans, you own several ancient mobiles the size of fridges - and an old fridge. Don't just chuck them out, says Jane Perrone - there is an environmentally sound answer.
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A Welsh river was yesterday tested for pollution after more than 200,000 litres of chemicals from a waste treatment plant spilled into it.
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Environmental authorities began contamination tests today after a Welsh chemicals company leaked 200,000 litres of industrial waste into a river that supplies most of the area's drinking water.
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Ireland's lead is a lesson for the UK.
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A group of the world's largest chemical companies are being accused of forming a cartel to force consumers and industry to use polluting and expensive chemicals in fridges and air conditioning units.
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Companies responsible for poisoning air, land and water with dangerous chemicals should be dealt with more severely by the courts, the government's environment agency said today.
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A mysterious sickness afflicting the Tiber has Italian environmental investigators baffled, says Rory Carroll.
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A scheme to charge motorists £5 to drive into central London was condemned in the high court yesterday as unlawful and likely to increase air pollution and adversely affect the quality of city life.
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The government caved in to the farming lobby yesterday and dropped plans to protect all the countryside from nitrate pollution, instead opting to do the minimum required to avoid being fined by the European court.
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Britain's scrap fridge mountain is getting so big that desperate councils are exporting shiploads to Germany because there is nowhere in this country to dispose of them.
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My plan for old fridges
Michael MeacherWe will have to collect and store old fridges for the next couple of months - until the new equipment is in place.
Helping households join the green regime