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Supertestifier Ralph Nader challenged the panel to concentrate on forcing multinationals to divulge information on profit, safety and other policies, which they are not now required to furnish publicly anywhere. Such open accountings of their activities, charged Nader, would reveal that many "world-corps" dump mislabeled and dangerous goods in foreign outlets, seek out nations with low pollution standards for new sites on which to build plants and condone "snakepit" working conditions in the Third World...
...Pont officials profess to be undisturbed by the success of their castoff, claiming they did well to dump an expensive failure. Of course, they might feel otherwise if the Corfam shoe were still on their foot...
...British Chemist Gerry Griffin, of Brunei University near London, claims that he has discovered a simple additive that will cause any plastic to decompose in the dump. Griffin will announce the discovery of what he calls "Additive X" this month at the semiannual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago. He says that the substance, mixed with plastic during the manufacturing process, is easily attacked and broken down by enzymes normally found in topsoil. When these additive particles are gone, the once glassy and impermeable plastic is left as a porous, sponge-like substance that naturally decomposes...
...water used as ballast on the return trip is flushed into the ocean; it includes a small amount of crude oil (usually about one-half of 1% of the tanker's capacity) left over from the previous load. In this manner, the world's tanker fleets annually dump an estimated 1,000,000 tons of oil residue into the oceans...
With reference to the most recent issue of Dump Truck (April 27) I would like to comment on two points that are brought...