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Article: Just the remedy.
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- Geographical
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- January 1, 2001
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Indian mustard, sunflowers and bacteria from the gut of a whale are becoming major players in an environmental clean-up campaign battling with the likes of oil, uranium and nerve gas.
WHERE THERE'S MUCK there's brass" is a saying that could have been coined for environmental cleanup. Dealing ith hazardous wastes using conventional technologies is projected to cost around $1.7 trillion in the USA alone. But the most widely accepted conventional technologies for waste treatment such as incineration and landfill disposal all have serious drawbacks. Incineration creates air pollution and ash that has to be discarded. Disposal in a landfill does not treat waste, and ...