Government effort to protect ozone

Senegal hopes to eliminate imports and use of ozone-producing substances by the year 2001, an official of the country’s Department of Environment told IRIN today. She said Senegal had received US $175,000 in 1995 under the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol on the elimination of ozone, to strengthen the country’s Ozone Bureau, charged locally with the elimination of chloroflurocarbons (CFCs) and other substances that damage the atmosphere.

Technicians were being trained on the hazards of CFCs and on recycling techniques of refrigeration parts, she said. The government will also try to eliminate the use of methyl bromide used in the fumigation of peanuts. A bill to eliminate the import and use of CFCs is to be brought before the national assembly.