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When Algerian service stations stopped providing leaded petrol last month, this marked the successful end to a global campaign to eliminate this “major threat to human and planetary health”.
Celebrating the official end of the use of leaded petrol on Monday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres said that when the global campaign to eliminate the use of tetraethyllead (TEL) as a petrol additive started in 2002, 117 countries were still using TEL.
“Today, there are none. Lead in fuel has run out of gas, thanks to the cooperation of governments in developing nations, thousands of businesses, and millions of ordinary people,” said Gutteres in a video message to a media briefing.
“Ending the use of leaded petrol will prevent more than one million premature deaths each year from heart disease, strokes, and cancer, and protect children whose IQs are damaged by exposure to lead. This achievement again shows what we can accomplish when we work together across countries and sectors for the common good.”
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