When safer is also cheaper
Article Abstract:
Over 60 million lamps are disposed of each year. They contain mercury and other harmful chemicals which remain in the environment indeffinately. The Regulations for the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSSH) cover the safe disposal of whole and crushed lamps but many electriacl contractors and lamp users continue to dispose of failed lamps in ordinary rubbish skips. The Soakup patented sack system for use with a lamp crusher ensures safe disposal and is cheaper than using a normel skip.
Publication Name: Electrical Contractor
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0308-7174
Year: 1992
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'The Web made me do it.'(frenzied reporting of Clinton scandal attributed to competition from the Internet)
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Critics of the media have suggested that reporters have abandoned their ethics in the feverish pursuit of details about the Clinton scandal. Driven by competition from the Internet, reporters, stations, and newspapers have all been willing to disseminate stories without checking them for accuracy.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
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ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1998
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The war of the worlds
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A Boston Globe journalist recalls the confusion surrounding rumors about an extra-terrestrial attack from Mars in 1938. However, as the rest of the country was engrossed with aliens, Bostonians were obliviously listening to a religious radio broadcast.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1998
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