Which old household appliances are the most dangerous for the environment?
vacuum cleaners
refrigerators
washing machines
radios
During the early 1970s, two American chemists - M. Molina and S. Rowland - identified the theoretical threat of ozone depletion by the release of chlorofluorocarbons (used as a refrigerator coolant). Initially, the reaction was sceptical, but when in 1983 scientists discovered ozone hole, the abstract threat suddenly became real.
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