For about the past five years i have been aware of a toxic waste dump in the suburb of Botany, Sydney.
The dump being reportedly three times over it's maximum limits.
I also viewed a very eye opening documentary about the issue of waste that the COMMUNITY disposal comity faced. These people were mostly made up of local residents that live in the area & have grave concerns about how it actually will be disposed of.
Resent research revealed that the toxic dump is the largest of it's kind in the entire world.
Holding a poison that has been band in this country since the late eighties & America band it even earlier, it's name is Hexachlorobenzene.
Desposing of the dangerous chemical is proving troublesome, as the Australian government has looked at swapping it for some foreign debt that another country may have. But then the issue lies. . what will they do with it, sell it on to a 3rd world country to possible insinerate the toxic waste or just dump it into the water.
I'll be looking into how the government will treat the waste, one method will leave the dangerous chemicals like black ashfalt, that will be ground up to use in roads.
The portion below is from 'Sydney indy media'
I wonder what Denmark can do with this stuff that cant be done safely in Australia I have a suspicion that once it is moved from Australia to Denmark it may then be disappeared to the third world where it may go on to pollute our whole planet. ICI / Orica has been responsible for polluting the ground water at Botany. Water incidentally that local property owners were using to water their veggie gardens. The whole process of producing a product should include dealing safely with the waste products of the that manufacturing process. There are photographs of ICI back in the seventies dumping drums of waste off barges into the coastal waters. We now understand the treachery of such irresponsible actions by corporate giants, but we are not really that keen to address the issues at the grass roots level.
The dump being reportedly three times over it's maximum limits.
I also viewed a very eye opening documentary about the issue of waste that the COMMUNITY disposal comity faced. These people were mostly made up of local residents that live in the area & have grave concerns about how it actually will be disposed of.
Resent research revealed that the toxic dump is the largest of it's kind in the entire world.
Holding a poison that has been band in this country since the late eighties & America band it even earlier, it's name is Hexachlorobenzene.
Desposing of the dangerous chemical is proving troublesome, as the Australian government has looked at swapping it for some foreign debt that another country may have. But then the issue lies. . what will they do with it, sell it on to a 3rd world country to possible insinerate the toxic waste or just dump it into the water.
I'll be looking into how the government will treat the waste, one method will leave the dangerous chemicals like black ashfalt, that will be ground up to use in roads.
The portion below is from 'Sydney indy media'
I wonder what Denmark can do with this stuff that cant be done safely in Australia I have a suspicion that once it is moved from Australia to Denmark it may then be disappeared to the third world where it may go on to pollute our whole planet. ICI / Orica has been responsible for polluting the ground water at Botany. Water incidentally that local property owners were using to water their veggie gardens. The whole process of producing a product should include dealing safely with the waste products of the that manufacturing process. There are photographs of ICI back in the seventies dumping drums of waste off barges into the coastal waters. We now understand the treachery of such irresponsible actions by corporate giants, but we are not really that keen to address the issues at the grass roots level.
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