Last year I watched a short tv reportage on Gela, Sicily. The small town was next to a major industrial area of the island. 50 years of omertà, bribes and illeg

Last year I watched a short tv reportage on Gela, Sicily. The small town was next to a major industrial area of the island. 50 years of omertà, bribes and illegal dumping from the petrochemical factory caused the town's death toll to skyrocket: +50% birth defects, +7% mortality for men and +15% for women compared to the rest of Sicily. Tumors left and right. (data source: http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/TGR/media/sic-gela-inquinamenti-eni-raffineria-petrolio-tumore-f2f6bae1-1b4c-4cfe-b36a-202f3ea00df4.html http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/TGR/media/sic-gela-inquinam...) Now the former blue collar workers (the ones who haven't died yet) are coming forward: "I buried Eni's toxic waste. They (He talks about the higher ups) used to say that everyone (the town) was going to die of tumor in the future." The processing waste, "from amianto to the reactor's ceramic rings", were allegedly buried in 500m²*15m tanks near the factory. I imagine this happens all the time, all over the world. Cutting corners – at the expense of the labor force – is the norm, not the exception. Even worse, imagine how difficult is to clean up the area. Even if you magically erase the waste now, that district will still be a death show for decades to come.