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"We are fouling our streams, lakes, marshes. The sea is next. We are burying ourselves under 7 million scrapped cars, 30 million tons of waste paper, 48 billion discarded cans and 28 billion bottles and jars a year. A million tons more of gar- bage pile up each day. The air we breathe circles the earth 40 times a year, and America contributes 140 million tons of pollutants.