Simply send us an email saying you want to receive the bulletin. With a growth in the human population of some 90 million a year, the arrival of two new babies is accompanied with the arrival of one new car. And this rate of growth is, we are assured by the transport lobby, set to continue. Mackenzie and Walsh, in their report Driving Forces, estimate that the world total of trucks and cars more than 500 million could double to one billion in the next twenty years. A major producer of sulfur dioxide, acids and slag waste.
Smelters release sulfur dioxide and are substantial energy users.
Zinc and Lead Industries . Considerable waste problems and a variety of health threats. Cars use 10 percent of OECD plastics production, for a whole range of fittings, from fuel tanks to door handles. Disposal of the large amounts of PVC, polyurethane, polyprone and high density polythene used in cars is difficult. Over three-quarters of a million tonnes of scrap plastic were produced in 1990 just from cars in Europe.