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Letter: Letter

Published 2 May 1998

From Frank Sierowski

Is this the answer to the cheap disposal of industrial waste, and a way of
increasing biodiversity? The logical follow-up to your article on the ecological
importance of old industrial sites would be to create such sites deliberately.

Find an area that lacks biodiversity or rare species, and dump waste
chemicals on it—the weirder the chemicals, the better. Then just wait and
see what develops.

London

Issue no. 2132 published 2 May 1998

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