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Your support makes all the difference.Tons of whale meat eaten daily in Japan: 7
Recycling deposit payable on purchase of a car in Sweden: pounds 73
Motor vehicles entering Abergavenny each year on the A465 in 1893: 0
In 1993: 6,205,000
Total worldwide donations to Greenpeace in 1992: pounds 110,000,000
Cost of building British government's new international arms-dealing executive office: pounds 255,400,000
Cost of peacekeeping and reconstruction in Cambodia: dollars 2,570,000,000
Expected cost of British unemployment benefit 1993-94: pounds 15,000,000,000
Government scientists monitoring food in 1979: 3,417
In 1993: 2,151
Cormorants and sawbill ducks known killed under licence in Scotland since 1988: 5,658
A year's savings expected from cuts in RAF air-sea rescue services: pounds 6,500,000
Noise compensation paid by taxpayers for Tornado warplanes at RAF Leeming: pounds 8,903,000
Proportion of under-21s who fail to move directly from government job training into work: 4/5
Times articulated road tankers loaded nose-to-tail with Calcutta's annual raw sewage would stretch round the globe: 5
Sources: RM / Geoffrey Lean; Euromonitor, The World Environment Business Handbook (KR850); RM / Welsh Office; ibid; New Statesman & Society; MoD; RM / Foreign and Commonwealth Office; RM / DoE; MAFF / Agricultural & Food Research Council Institute; ibid; Scottish Office; Ministry of Defence; ibid; RM / DoE; RM / Euromonitor, The World Environment Business Handbook
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