carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, most of the plastics used in cars are difficult to recycle or reuse. Consequently ends up as solid waste in landfills. This problem is a prime example of minimizing the environmental burden in one part of the cycle without imposing another problem somewhere else. In the C&EN article I obtained from Mr. Shillady, Ian Boustead, a British consultant engineer comments on this issue, "Usually when you make one thing better, you make something else worse, so it is often a balancing act of trading one thing off against something else" (25). This
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