USE OF LEADED PETROL FINALLY END.

For six decades from the 1920s, leaded petrol was used as standard in cars and lorries, it contaminated air, soil and water, causing heart disease, cancer, strokes and has been linked to problems with brain development in children. While most high in come countries banned its use in the 1980s, globally it has only now finally been eradicated, according to the UN . Algeria the last country to use it ran out of supplies last July. Ending the use of leaded petrol will prevent more one million premature deaths each year. Environment group Greenpeace says it should be taken as an example of how use of fossil fuels could be ended.