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“Environmental degradation and weak economies, deforestation and poverty, overpopulation and hunger are now recognised as clearly inter-related,” said Mr Peter Seligmann, executive director of Conservation International. Theagreement, signed ina US Boliv- ian Embassy, deals with two critical in- ter-related global problems: the rapid destruction of tropical rainforests (and their plant and animal species) and the huge foreign debts of ‘developing’ and ‘Third World’ countries. The heat recovery and cogenera- tion system in Orangeville, Ontario is saving the town at least $C70,000 in electricity and heating costs in its first year and could earn the townan additional $10,000 a year from the sale of heat. The system takes advantage of the town’s sewage treatment plant, using methane to generate thermal and electrical energy, to heat and light the plant. Excess energy heats a nearby school. The scheme cost $320,000, part of a $5 million expan- sion of Orangeville’s water pollu- tion control plant. 14 Tn an economic deal designed to save an ee ee ae Waste Not, Want Not