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1
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Les déchets et le recyclage

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Waste and recycling

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Polluer

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To pollute

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La pollution de l’eau

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Water pollution

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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

Une substance polluante

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A pollutant

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Polluant

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Polluting

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Etre peu polluant

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To pollute little

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Très polluant

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To pollute a lot

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Produits non polluants

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Non-polluting products

Eco-friendly products

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Diminuer la pollution

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To reduce pollution

To curb pollution

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Gaspiller

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To waste

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13
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Le gaspillage

Les déchets

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Wastage

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The “polluter pays principle”

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Adopted at the Earth summit in 1992

= the polluter should bear the cost of pollution

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La pollution de l’air

La pollution atmosphérique

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Air pollution

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Le smog

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Smog

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Un pic de pollution

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A pollution peak

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18
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Les fumées d’usine

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Factory smoke

Factory fumes

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Les gaz d’échappement

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Car exhausts

Exhausts fumes

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L’essence sans plomb

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Unleaded petrol

Lead-free petrol

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21
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Un pot catalytique

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A catalytic converter

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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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L’asthme

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Asthma

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25
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Loi sur la pureté de l’air

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Clean Air Act

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26
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When was the first Clean Air Act passed?

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1956

In respond to the Great Smog of December 1952

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What was the Great Smog of December 1952?

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Period of 5 days
A mixture of fog, chimney smoke and other pollutants formed a thick blanket over London
Thousands premature deaths

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28
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Centrales thermiques

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Power stations

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29
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What stipulated the Clean Air Act?

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Power stations had to be relocated in rural areas

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30
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Promulguer

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To enact

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31
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Les nitrates

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Nitrates

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32
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Les engrais

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Fertilizers

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33
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La nappe phréatique

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Groundwater

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34
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Contaminer les rivières

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To poison rivers

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35
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Contaminer

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To contaminate

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36
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Un polluant

Une substance polluante

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A contaminant

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37
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Une substance chimique toxique

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A toxic chemical

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38
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La dioxine

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Dioxin

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39
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Nocif

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Harmful

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40
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Les égouts

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The sewage system

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Un égout

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A sewer

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42
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Les eaux usées

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Sewage

Waste water

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Une station d’épuration des eaux

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A sewage works
A sewage plant
A sewage farm

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44
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L’amiante

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Asbestos

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45
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Désaimanter un bâtiment

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To remove asbestos from a building

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46
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Le saturnisme

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Lead poisoning

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47
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Les PCB

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PCBs

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48
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Les gaz CFC

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CFCs

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La couche d’ozone

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Tho ozone layer

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Les pluies acides

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Acid rains

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Porte-avions

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Aircraft carrier

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Démantèlement

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Dismantling

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Une marée noire

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An oil slick

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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

To flush one’s tanks

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Le dégazage

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Oil tankers emptying their tanks

Oil tankers discharging waste oil

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Exploitations minières

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Industrial mining

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Nappe phréatique

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Groundwater

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Les ordures
Les détritus
Les déchets

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Waste
Rubbish
Garbage

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Les déchets toxiques

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Toxic waste

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Les déchets organiques

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Organic waste

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Les détritus

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Litter

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Éliminer des déchets

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To dispose of waste

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Les déchets dangereux

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Hazardous waste

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Les ordures ménagères

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Household refuse

Household rubbish

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Jetable

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Disposable

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Biodégradable

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Biodegradable

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Ramasser des déchets

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To collect waste

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Le ramassage des ordures

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Waste collection

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Une déchetterie

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A waste collection centre

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Un éboueur

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A dustman

A garbage man

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Une boite à ordures

Une poubelle

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A dustbin
A bin
A garbage can

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Une poubelle (à roulettes)

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A wheelie bin

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Un camion poubelle

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A bin lorry
A dust cart
A garbage truck

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Un sac poubelle

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A bin liner

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Se débarrasser de

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To discard

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Déposer des ordures

Jeter des 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

Un dépotoir

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A rubbish dump
A garbage dump
A rubbish tip
A dumping ground

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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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Tu bury

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Un site d’enfouissement des ordures

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A landfill

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Brûler

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To burn

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Détruire

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To destroy

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Un incinérateur

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An incinerator

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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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Les déchets nucléaires

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Nuclear waste

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Retombées radioactives

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Radioactive fallout

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La radioactivité

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Radioactivity

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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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Un conteneur

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A container

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Des conteneurs hermétiquement fermés

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Hermetically sealed containers

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Une fuite

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A leak

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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

The safety-first principal

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Un dysfonctionnement

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A malfunction

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Fusion

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Meltdown

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Le cœur du réacteur

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The reactor core

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Leucémie

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Leukemia

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Traiter des déchets

Transformer des déchets

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To process waste

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Trier

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To sort

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Le tri sélectif

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Sorting

Waste separation

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Un conteneur de verre

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A bottle bank

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Des chiffons

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Rags

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Le carton

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Cardboard

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La ferraille

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Scrap metal

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Les emballages

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Packaging

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Une boite de bière

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A can of beer

A beer can

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Un surplus

Un excès

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A glut

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Le recyclage

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Recycling

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Recycler le plastique

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To recycle plastic

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Recyclable

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Recyclable

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Une usine de recyclage

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A recycling plant

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Les coûts de recyclage

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Recycling costs

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