One of the things I learned in the early years of my environmental advocacy is that burning of PVC plastic is dangerous. It releases a deadly chemical compound called dioxin which is carcinogenic and can cause reproductive and developmental problems and damage to the immune system. This is one of the reasons why environmentalists oppose incineration as a method of disposing solid waste. I was then a member of the Zero Waste Recycling Movement of the Philippines which advocates the good old 3R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycling) and composting as the eco-friendly way of managing solid waste.
people. you see the picture of the official ceremony with all the politicians there. the real place where all the celebrations are happening is right here. this car is the epitome of east german engineering. and this is fully made of pvc plastic, which means that it is very light but not good if you actually have an accident. so you don t want to have an accident in that car. but as you see, our attraction. but a lot of people are coming out here today to what is the longest still remaining segment of the berlin wall that is still in place. it is sort of an outdoor art gallery. there was controversy over the past couple years that some of these paintings were in disrepair and some developers wanted to build high rise buildings here. so it is still an important landmark to many folks here and
right wing in places like germany, in other countries as well, brexit, a lot of folks also speaking about some of the political divisions in the united states saying, look, channel that feeling of 1989 in berlin, that feeling where the folks in east germany went and just pushed through that wall and essentially made it go away and try not to lose that feeling today. that s certainly the message that this city, they say, is trying to send out to the world and to the many places where they feel that unity and freedom might be in jeopardjeopardy. fred, while you were talking there were a few people behind you near that car and there are still people there, but there were folks taking pictures. what s the significance of that? reporter: so the car is actually our own car. this is the cnn car and few people know that one of the main attractions here in berlin is actually our own car. so this was the epitome of communist east german automotive engineering. it s made of pvc plastic, the e
they ve been saying this now for well, almost 24 hours, that a strong possibility is that these packages were being mailed from florida based on their ability to try to track the packages backwards. so you ve got a forward-looking investigation of trying to exploit how the bombs were made and a backward looking one, trying to trace back how they got there. my colleague from w nbc in new york had an important piece of information a moment ago. because cnn was saying they weren t all mailed because there s was delivered by a courier. it turns out, according to the people he s talked to, yes, it was brought to the cnn headquarters by courier but had been delivered to an offsite facility to be screened by mail. we re told the devices were all made of pvc plastic, one-inch diameter plastic pipe with end caps like this. inside was apparently explosive