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I wonder if this submission was in response to recent hn post[1], wherein the Bloomberg report and author Adam Minter said: "In the two decades I’ve covered the

I wonder if this submission was in response to recent hn post[1], wherein the Bloomberg report and author Adam Minter said: "In the two decades I’ve covered the transglobal trade in discards, I’ve yet to see a shipping container of discards “dumped” on a developing country." Perhaps the Mafia doesn't use shipping containers in particular. Perhaps this story this story has been thoroughly debunked somewhere. Yet as it stand, this story, sad and earlier as it might be, makes this reporter and son of junk yard owner, look a bit too beholden to the garbage industry that he has apparently always been a part of. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19923119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19923119

jxub 7y ago
Nope, the topic was mentioned while browsing the r/collapse subreddit, so I googled it as I was shocked to see this kind of thing happening in Italy.
rasz 7y ago
Usual MO seems to be -start a company using Bum off the street as a frontman -import ship full of toxic waste -rent dilapidated barracks from random farmer -truck garbage in under cover of night -set everything on fire -go to step 1 At the start of 2018 there were 60 illegal toxic waste dumps in just first _three months_. https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/poland-illegal-waste-uk-return-plastic-pollution-environment-agency-greenpeace-a8491201.html https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/poland-illegal-was... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-waste/poland-vows-to-fight-illegal-waste-dumps-after-toxic-fires-idUSKCN1IU1QZ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-waste/poland-vows-...
- Red_Tarsius 7y ago
  Sometimes they bury the toxic waste under the same land used for growing crops and keeping livestocks. Consequence: the contamination of the groundwater used by all the local farms. The result is carcinogenic meat and produce. I first read about it in Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah.

jxub 7y ago

Nope, the topic was mentioned while browsing the r/collapse subreddit, so I googled it as I was shocked to see this kind of thing happening in Italy.

rasz 7y ago

Usual MO seems to be -start a company using Bum off the street as a frontman -import ship full of toxic waste -rent dilapidated barracks from random farmer -truck garbage in under cover of night -set everything on fire -go to step 1 At the start of 2018 there were 60 illegal toxic waste dumps in just first _three months_. https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/poland-illegal-waste-uk-return-plastic-pollution-environment-agency-greenpeace-a8491201.html https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/poland-illegal-was... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-waste/poland-vows-to-fight-illegal-waste-dumps-after-toxic-fires-idUSKCN1IU1QZ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-waste/poland-vows-...

Red_Tarsius 7y ago
Sometimes they bury the toxic waste under the same land used for growing crops and keeping livestocks. Consequence: the contamination of the groundwater used by all the local farms. The result is carcinogenic meat and produce. I first read about it in Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah.