MEANWHILE, environmentally concerned groups press on with their other campaigns – even if they are less radical than a mass programme of euthanasia. Last week, Friends of the Earth launched their Chemical Release Inventory service as part of their Right to Know campaign. Visit , enter your snail-mail postcode and you will be presented with a map of your local area showing the whereabouts of local industrial plants. Another click reveals a record of how much chemical waste they release. The information is collated from the official Chemical Release Inventory and larger maps of England and Wales are also available.
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