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- <title>
- Aug. 07, 1989: American Notes:California
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 07, 1989 Diane Sawyer:Is She Worth It?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 23
- American Notes
- CALIFORNIA
- Saying No to CFC's
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- <p> Environmentalists and governments everywhere agree that
- something must be done to halt the widespread use of
- chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other substances that are
- destroying the earth's protective ozone layer -- and just about
- everybody agrees that nobody is doing enough. Last week the
- Southern California city of Irvine (pop. 110,000) did more than
- most.
- </p>
- <p> By a vote of 4 to 1, the city council passed an ordinance
- prohibiting the manufacture, sale and use of virtually all
- ozone-depleting chemicals. Banned are plastic food packagings
- made with CFCs, certain types of building insulation and some
- solvents widely used for cleaning printed circuit boards in
- personal computers. Most consumer spray-can products are
- permitted; the majority of these are no longer propelled with
- CFCs. Refrigerators and automobile air conditioners are
- excluded, since no readily available substitute exists for the
- hazardous compounds they use.
- </p>
- <p> Irvine's ordinance is a small but significant step. Of the
- city's 5,000 businesses, about 500 electronics, insulation and
- fast-food packaging companies will be affected by the new
- rules. They produce more than 700,000 lbs. of ozone-depleting
- compounds annually -- one five-thousandth of the entire amount
- of such chemicals used worldwide every year.
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- </body></article>
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