The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 182National Geographic Society., 1992 - Geography |
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... million more are discarded yearly . Two cleanup strategies are on a roll : burning tires to make electricity and adding scrap rubber to asphalt for roads . " Tires are like funny - shaped barrels of oil , " says Robert Graulich of the ...
... million more are discarded yearly . Two cleanup strategies are on a roll : burning tires to make electricity and adding scrap rubber to asphalt for roads . " Tires are like funny - shaped barrels of oil , " says Robert Graulich of the ...
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... million to 27 million tons a year - far beyond even RMD's most optimistic forecasts . In the mid - 1980s RMD was predicting as much as 11 million tons of traffic - Wirth believes three million tons is a more likely figure - but now ...
... million to 27 million tons a year - far beyond even RMD's most optimistic forecasts . In the mid - 1980s RMD was predicting as much as 11 million tons of traffic - Wirth believes three million tons is a more likely figure - but now ...
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... million acres to 6 million . That is not exactly true . The amount actually added was almost 2.5 million acres , and it is a different kind of parkland than many people are familiar with : ANILCA provi- sions intended to preserve ...
... million acres to 6 million . That is not exactly true . The amount actually added was almost 2.5 million acres , and it is a different kind of parkland than many people are familiar with : ANILCA provi- sions intended to preserve ...
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