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> Wow that is an incredible story and a great read. I am shocked that dumping millions of barrels of toxic waste into the ocean was potentially legal This is t
by einpoklum 6y ago
> Wow that is an incredible story and a great read. I am shocked that dumping millions of barrels of toxic waste into the ocean was potentially legal
This is the USA, my friend! Land of the regulation-free, home of the brazen.
- pvaldes 6y agoThat 'Now is your problem, not mine anymore' was a common way to do things in that time. Is not an US-centric problem only. Belgium, France, UK, Germany, Italy, Holland, Switzerland and Sweden dumped their radioactive garbage in barrels in the Atlantic Ocean between 1940's and 1982 at just 200km of the Spanish Coast. Greenpeace saved the day that time but it seems that everybody forgot that and we live in groundhog day again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_waste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_...