There were companies that presented themselves as "specialized in waste disposal" and then throwed all overboard. But the problem is that nobody really controlled what they were doing and even today investigation is born from other inquiries, due to revelations of informants or in investigations into the death of Ilaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin, two italian journalist killed while searching for toxic waste in Somalia. A whole obscure, criminal economic sector all over the world. The sea becomes a huge trash can, from plastic to the radioactive waste of nuclear power plants in Europe.
Governments do not control even if they know that most of the disposal of waste is managed by criminal organizations around the world. The public doesn't understand that throwing away hazardous waste is not just pollution, it is also murder and massacre, only delayed. They throw toxic waste into the sea and this enter the food chain of fish, years after people die of cancer. They bury the waste and this enters the aquifers, and the cancer mortality increases in subsequent years. In Africa, where much less serious diseases kill people more easily than cancer, the waste is left everywhere, poisoning entire populations, as has happened in Ivory Coast in August. But the company liable escaped with a reparation, and continues to deny that discarding 500 tons of toxic waste has something to do with 15 dead and 100,000 poisoned in just two months. This is just one case in another 10,000 never discovered, and came to light because it is so blatant it can not be hidden.
Many scientific studies have shown a direct correlation between the areas where waste is not disposed properly and the incidence of cancer, which also increases in the vicinity of incinerators. What should people do if they were not drugged by television and distracted by misinformation? Should demand to their government tightened controls on the disposal of waste. Should demand to stop producing all that cannot be recycled, and is therefore unsustainable. Should reject nuclear power at all costs, because beyond the lies of those who have economic interests in it, nuclear plants are a cancer for the planet and for humanity, because they produce waste that will remain toxic for thousands of years and that no country really knows how to dispose properly. But if people remain ignorant of all this the mafia and unscrupulous entrepreneurs will continue to do great business, we will continue to die of pollution and finally, after so many efforts, we will finally destroy this planet.
Francesco Defferrari
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Here in Britain much attention is paid to future projections of Climate Change and closure of Coal fired industry - I know every little bit helps, but really agree that more attention needs be spent on what's happening all round us on a daily basis, including the hugely poisonous nuclear issue - The reality is so much harsher than we care to realise.
All best with your environmental works
da100thmonkey