Stories of man made hazarads
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The Bhopal Gas Leak. The victims of the gas leak. ...
The Jilin Chemical Explosion. The toxic cloud from the explosion. ...
The Tennesse Coal Ash Spill. A house in Kingston buried in the ash. ...
The Sidoarjo mud volcano. ...
The North Pacific Garbage Patch. ...
The Gulf War Spill. ...
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. ...
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.
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1. The Guiyu E-Waste Dump In China
A child in the Guiyu e-waste dump
The Americans, although completely deserving, are not the only ones to blame for the current state of the Earth.
The Guiyu dump in China is the biggest e-waste landfill in the world. A total of 52 square kilometres of land is buried in iPhones, Galaxy S4s and other famous electronic devices. Even though of e-waste can’t possibly compare in size with world garbage, it contains the intimidating amount of 70% of all heavy metals in the landfills. In time, they leak out of the appliances and guess what, end up in the land, air and water. Pretty much all of the surrounding area and especially the rice supplies are exposed to lead poisoning. Guiyu’s children have a 54 percent higher lead levels in their blood than those of the nearby town Chendian.
On top of that, the methods of disposal and reprocessing are highly outdated. Some include literally burning the piles of electronics to retrieve precious metals, which furthermore pollutes the area. Soil samples from a Guiyu workshop show 371 times more lead and 115 times more copper in comparison to samples taken 30 kilometres away.
The environmental impact from electronic waste is one of the largest growing problems in the world as of now. Consider that next time you drop your batteries in the general trash can.
2. . The Bhopal Gas Leak
The victims of the gas leak
In 1984, a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, resealed 30 metric tons of methyl isocyanite into the atmosphere. The Union Carbide India Limited chemical plant was in extremely poor condition and had broken dozens of safety regulations years before the accident. However, the errors accumulated in time and on the night of December the third, a safety release system activated and emptied a storage tank in the air, in order to prevent a huge chemical explosion. The release spread highly toxic chemicals over Bhopal and the neighbouring areas. Official death count by the Indian government is 3,787 bodies, however, unofficial records state 8,000 deaths or more tied to the disaster.
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