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lynx
Fridge Mountain
2002 v 2022
Didn't know it was all the EU's fault:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2055285.stm
A European law which came into force at the beginning of this year requires that this gas be extracted and destroyed before the rest of the fridge is recycled.
This means the appliances can no longer be exported to developing countries or buried underground - the fate that once befell most of the two and a half million fridges Britons throw out every year.
But treating them properly needs specialist kit. The UK only has about one tenth of the recycling capacity needed, and failed to build more in time for the 1 January deadline for the introduction of the new directive.