Insurance firm wants more ‘green’ car repair

By David RogersThe Vienna insurance firm Allianz has called for more environmentally-friendly car repair.Firm
board member Johann Oswald said today (Thurs) that a study by the
Karlsruhe Institute for Technology in Germany had shown that smaller
repairs instead of the installation of new spare parts resulted in
significantly lower emissions of greenhouse gases.Oswald said such repairs in Austria had the potential to lower emissions of CO2 by 56,000 tonnes annually.