Word: cfc
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There is only one problem. When they escape into the atmosphere, most CFCs are murder on the environment. Each CFC molecule is 20,000 times as efficient at trapping heat as is a molecule of CO2. So CFCs increase the greenhouse effect far out of proportion to their concentration...
...choice groups, the Coalition to Defend Abortion Rights (CDAR), which includes several Harvard students, and the Coalition for Choice (CFC), have organized counter-protests in the Boston area for Saturday...
...that do not harm the ozone become available, the prices of the chemicals may surge because of limited supplies. Recognizing that possibility, the EPA has asked for public comment on two ways of preventing producers from making excessive profits. One proposal calls for a special tax on earnings from CFC and halon sales, the other for the Government to auction off manufacturing rights, making a company pay for the privilege of producing the chemicals...
...Foam has been singled out as the culprit, butit isn't. The average life span of a landfill is10 years. If we got rid of all foam products, wewould only extend the life of a landfill by onemonth. The CFC resulting from foam products isonly one-one thousandth of 1 percent of thehazards to the ozone layer...
Whatever the exact effect of foam products,sources on both sides of the question agreed thatthere will be a dramatic shift to paper productsin the future. Even McDonald's has limited its useof foam products and has stopped using CFC toproduce its foam...