Problem of garbage in China (10 photos)

Interesting Photo | 2009/10/17 10:24 | NOOTL.com
The ecology of Chinese cities is located under the threat. [Ekologi] sound the alarm, since approximately two thirds of Chinese cities " took in the blockade” the heap of garbage. On the calculations of experts, in the cities of the country on 20 thousand hectares of the earth were saved approximately 6 billion tons of everyday garbage, and this “mountain” grows up by 4,8 percent per year.

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1. Woman with the daughter they stand in the aperture of the door of the covered with garbage house in the expectation of harvesting automobile in the center of Peking. Garbage is accumulated in China everywhere, creating problems with the sanitation, and everything because of the swift jump of the country from the poverty to wealth. “If the government not of the signs of measure in order to solve our problems with the garbage, China can encounter with the sanitary crisis into the following 10 years”, prevents [Liu] Of [yanshen], the expert for administration of the liquidation of withdrawals at the university Of [peking]. (Greg of Baker/AP)


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2. Workers sort garbage in the center of processing in Peking. In the last twenty years the volume of garbage in China increased three, [dostignuv] of 300 million tons per year, accordingly not Of [yunfen], to expert for processing of garbage at the Peking university Of [tsynkhua]. Americans as before considerably outdistanced China in the plan of the liquidation of garbage, but for China this problem is the sharp turn from that time, when families - then, in essence, rural and poor - used everything on several times. “Earlier with the garbage there were no problems, because we did not have supermarkets, packets and infinite the turns of goods, he says not. - I suddenly government [zapanikovalo] because of the mountains of the garbage, which took over everything all around”. (Greg of Baker/AP)


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3. Girl washes fig in the saucepan in point of the method of utility scrap in Peking. Protests in the Chinese cities lead to the accumulation of garbage in the villages and the suburbs. In the past year the inhabitants of Peking crowded in the ministry of protection of environment, protesting against the unpleasant smell dump and requiring to place there rubbish-incinerating to bake. The plan of furnace was in July sketched, and dump was shut for 4 years earlier. In East Peking the authorities put millions of dollars for the creation of dump and rubbish-incinerating furnace, which would correspond to hygienic standards. This happened only after 200 000 people they signed petition against the unpleasant smell. (Greg of Baker/AP)


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4. Workers examine garbage in [Chanchune], northeastern China. At least, 85% of entire garbage of China (which is approximately 7 million tons) is located on the dumps, majority - on not [litsenzirovannykh] [musorkakh] in the suburbs. On some is fallen down only the plastic and fiberglass. Rains will carry heavy metals, ammonia and bacteria into the underground waters and the soil, and the pairs of decomposition separate into air methane and carbonate newspaper (AP)


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5. The inhabitant of settlement looks at the enormous dump not far from [Chzhanlidiy] town, whose smell is felt long before she it appears at the horizon. Less than in five years dump into [Chzhenchzhou] exceeded by the volumes settlement into 1000 people. Peaches and cherries on the trees perish under the invasion of the insects, drawn by the stink of dump. Fields are not processed and contaminated by toxic withdrawals. Each day of approximately 100 tons of garbage arrives from To [chzhenchzhou] - capital of province with 8 million inhabitants. (Andy Of wong/AP)


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6. Truck unloads garbage on the dump not far from [Chzhanliduna]. During the visit of the reporter of the agency “Of associated Of press” along the narrow road, which leads to [Chzhanlidun], was built entire turn of more than hundred trucks, upward well-packed by garbage. They all waited their turn to drop fetid load to the dump by area in 20 football pour on. (Andy Of wong/AP)


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7. The inhabitant Of [chzhanliduna] shows her damaged plants. Dump poisons not only air and earth, but also relation. Some inhabitants say that their opinion apropos of dump no one asked, they suspect, that to the representatives of their Communist Party they paid for the creation of this dump. Sometimes the inhabitants of settlement are scolded with the drivers or even attempt to partition to trucks way to the dump, which is found in 30 km from their populated area. (Andy Of wong/AP)


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8. In this boy from [Chzhanliduna] the disease of the skin, reason for which, as is considered its mother, became environmental pollution from the adjacent dump. Van [Lin] ( representative of the ministry of protection of [Chzhanliduna] surrounding media, says that the dump was created on polyethylene in order to protect the earth under it. “The test results of local soil, water and air into 2006 and in this year showed that everything corresponds to hygienic standards”, he says. Inhabitants assert that polyethylene in many places is torn and covers the part of the dump only. (Andy Of wong/AP)


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9. Truck throws out garbage, which is here sorted by workers on the dump in [Chanchune]. China begins to be urbanized after the millenium in the means of rural society. The occupied families increasingly more frequently reject the fresh food in favor of the semifinished products, whose consumption grew by 10,8% from 2000 through 2008, which to 4,2% is greater than in Asia. By 2013 the market for semifinished products and [fasovannykh] foodstuffs can grow to 195 billion dollars - to 74% greater than in this year. (AP)


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10. Working dumps at the peak of debris mountain into [Guyyan], southwest of China. A certain part of the garbage in China finally they began to burn, but the study, carried out by Chinese government, it explained that the rubbish-incinerating furnaces are separated 10 times of more than [dioksinov], which are been the reason for cancer and other diseases, than in the same United States. (AP)

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