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Car Recycling
 

The European Parliament approved a bill in Feb 2000 to make car manufacturers start recycling 80 percent of the weight of cars by 2006 and 85 percent by 2015.

The European Commission says that about 9 million cars are discarded every year, 25 percent ending up in landfills where they contaminate soil and groundwater.

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