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Water pollution

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La pollution de l’eau

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Polluer

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To pollute

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La pollution sonore

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Noise pollution

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Un pollueur

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A polluter

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Un polluant

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A pollutant

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Polluant

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Polluting

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Être peu/ très polluant

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To pollute a little/ a lot

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Non-polluting, eco-friendly products

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Produits non polluants

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Gaspiller

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To waste

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Le gaspillage OU les déchets

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Wastage

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La pollution de l’air

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Air pollution

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A pollution peak

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Un pic de pollution

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Factory smoke

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Les fumées d’usine

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Les gaz d’échappement

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Car exhausts

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L’essence sans plomb

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Unleaded, lead-free petrol

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A catalytic converter

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Un pot catalytique

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Surveiller la qualité de l’air

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To monitor air quality

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Avoir du mal à respirer

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To have difficulty breathing

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Les nitrates

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Nitrates

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Les engrais

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Fertilizers

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La nappe phréatique

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Groundwater

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Contaminer les rivières

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To poison rivers

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To contaminate

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Contaminer

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Une substance chimique toxique

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A toxic chemical

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Harmful

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Nocif

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The sewage system

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Les égouts

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A sewer

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Un égout

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Les eaux usées

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Sewage, waste water

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A sewage work

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Une station d’épuration des eaux usées

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Asbestos

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L’amiante

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To remove asbestos from a building

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Désaimanter un bâtiment

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Le saturnisme

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Lead poisoning

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The ozone layer

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La couche d’ozone

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Les pluies acides

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Acid rains

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An oil slick

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Une marrée noire

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Un déversement accidentel de pétrole

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An oil spill

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Des oiseaux mazoutés

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Oil-covered birds

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Dégazer

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To empty one’s tanks

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Le dégazage

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Oil tankers emptying their tanks

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Les déchets les ordures

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Waste, rubbish, garbage

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Toxic/ organic waste

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Les déchets toxiques/ organiques

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Litter

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Les détritus

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To dispose of waste

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Éliminer des déchets

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Les déchets dangereux

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Hazardous waste

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Household refuse

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Les ordures ménagères

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Jetable

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Disposable

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To collect waste

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Ramasser des déchets

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Le ramassage des ordure

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Waste collection

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Waste collection center

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Une déchetterie

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A dustman

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Un éboueur

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A dustbin, a bin

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Une poubelle

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A wheelie bin

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Une poubelle (à roulettes)

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A bin lorry, a dust cart

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Un camion poubelle

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Un sac poubelle

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A bin liner

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Jeter les ordures

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To dump rubbish

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Jeter

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To throw away

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Une décharge

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A rubbish dump

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Une décharge sauvage

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An illicit rubbish dump

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Enterrer, enfouir

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To bury

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Un site d’enfouissement des ordures

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A landfill

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Fondre

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To melt

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Une fuite

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A leak

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Retombées radioactives

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Radioactive fallout

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Cancérigène

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Carcinogenic

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Éliminer les déchets nucléaires

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To dispose of nuclear waste

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L’élimination des déchets nucléaires

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Nuclear waste disposal

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A container

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Un conteneur

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Hermetically sealed containers

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Des conteneurs hermétiquement fermés

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Le stockage des déchets radioactifs

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The storage of nuclear waste

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Le principe de précaution

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The precautionary principle

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To process waste

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Traiter, transformer les déchets

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To sort

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Trier

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Le tri sélectif

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Sorting

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A bottle bank

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Un conteneur de verre

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Rags

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Des chiffons

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Cardboard

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Le carton

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La ferraille

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Scrap metal

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Packaging

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Les emballages

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Une boîte de bière

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A cam of beer

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Un surplus

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A glut

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Une usine de recyclage

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A recycling plant

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