Does Cash for Clunkers Help the Environment? It's Debatable - Political News - FOXNews.com

Does Cash for Clunkers Help the Environment? It's Debatable - Political News - FOXNews.com: "'Disposing of old products, a step required by most incentive and rebate programs, also has environmental costs,' Gwen Ottinger, a researcher at the Chemical Heritage Foundation's Center for Contemporary History and Policy in Philadelphia, wrote in an opinion article published in The Washington Post on Tuesday.

'It takes energy to shred and recycle metals; plastic components often cannot be recycled and end up as landfill cover; and the engine fluids, refrigerants and other chemicals essential to operating products end up as hazardous wastes,' she wrote."