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What emissions from human activities lead to ozone depletion? And what are the principle steps in stratospheric ozone depletion caused by human activities?

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Ozone depletion is caused due to the CFCs and other such depleters.
O3+ClClO+O2
CFCs convert ozone to oxygen molecules. Principal steps in ozone depletion are emission of CFCs, then reaching the stratosphere and then depletion of layer.

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