Toxic Chemical Findings in Slovakia

Greenpeace activists have found serval tonnes of toxic chemicals in the Slovak village Hontianske Tesare. The chemicals are mostly obsolete pesticides. More than 20 Greenpeace activists secure the building against weather conditions.

Unique identifier: GP031H5

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Shoot date: 06/10/2005

Locations: Baltic States, Central Europe, Hontianske Tesare, Slovakia

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Juraj Rizman

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Toxic Chemical Findings in Slovakia

Greenpeace activists find several tonnes of toxic chemicals in the Slovak village of Hontianske Tesare. The chemicals, mostly obsolete pesticides, were stored in old dilapidated buildings, former warehouse of a bankrupted collective farm. The samples of chemicals from the farm, which were analyzed in independent laboratories, proved to contain several dangerous chemicals, some of them produced in the former German democratic republic, including chlorinated dioxins and furans, for example tetrachlorodibenzofurane.

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