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Hazardous waste: how to get rid of it?

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Fire at a landfill in Bhalswa, north of New Delhi, India.

The scorching temperatures favor the emergence of fires in the middle of the garbage.

(Illustrative image) © Manish Swarup/AP

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

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Paints, glues, batteries, waste oils, pesticides contain mercury, asbestos, arsenic, chromium... All these substances pollute our environment to such an extent that according to European scientists, chemical pollution has globally crossed the danger threshold for the stability of ecosystems.

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Their management is not always exemplary, as demonstrated by the controversial example of the Stocamine affair in Alsace, in the east of France.

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Angélique Ferrat visited two polluted sites.

In eastern France in Wittelsheim at the controversial site of

Stocamine, a former mine converted into a storage center for 42,000 tons of non-recyclable waste that the State wants to permanently bury 550 m underground against the advice of the inhabitants.

Then to Bonfol in Switzerland, where the old chemical dump was cleaned up to become a pond.

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