Letter: Correction:

Published 20 June 1998

In the Focus article: “A wasted chance”
(30 May, p 22),
the figure of 16.9 million cubic metres of waste was
wrongly printed as 16.9 cubic metres.

Issue no. 2139 published 20 June 1998

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