Toxic Hungarian Sludge Flood

Red sludge is dumped into a ditch next to the reservoirs of the alumina plant MAL between Aika and Kolontár, that broke and caused a toxic red sludge flood on 4th of October, killing 10 and injuring dozens. In the background hydrochloric acid is induced from huge containers into the same ditch to neutralize it.

Unique identifier: GP02AHO

Type: Image

Shoot date: 26/01/2011

Locations: Central Europe, Hungary, Kolontár

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Bernd Schaudinnus

Size: 1936px × 1288px 1MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Toxic Hungarian Sludge Flood

Greenpeace campaigners inspect the bauxite storage basins at Kolontar that caused the toxic sludge flood on the 4th of October 2010. They discover that part of the toxic waste is being disposed right into a nearby ditch that leeds into the Kolontar creek on on into the Danube. Under current state of emergency laws this is not illegal. They take samples of the toxics that are fed into the ditch and of the hydrochloric acid used to neutralize the basic toxics.

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