Burnt cables
Cables from the ships are illegally burnt in the early morning. When burnt, highly dangerous fumes like dioxins and furans are released. Dioxins are the most toxic substances humans have ever released into the environment.
Asbestos
Asbestos containing materials (blue, white and brown) are lying all over the shipbreaking site. Also at the open dumpsite, where villagers from nearby settlements are searching for valuable materials.
Aliaga
This is Aliaga, Turkey around 50 km north of Izmir at the Aegean coast. And although Turkey is an OECD country, the environmental and working conditions are very similar to the shipbreaking countries in Asia. Shipbreaking in Aliaga began in mid 70's and officially in 1984 when the import of ship-for-scrap was allowed according to liberalisation measures of that time.
Sea Beirut
An important shipbreaking example in Turkey is the Sea
Beirut. Turkey wants France to take back this ship, under the same Basel
Convention. In Turkey the import of toxic ships-for-scrap is not allowed.
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