Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Toxics-Action-Discovery-of-Illegal-Toxic-Landfill-in-Bex-27MZIFLO3XCK.htmlConceptually similarToxics Action Discovery of Illegal Toxic Landfill in BexGP01TVMCompleted★★★★Toxics Sampling at the Bonfol LandfillGP01U4NCompleted★★★★Toxics Sampling at the Bonfol LandfillGP01U4OCompleted★★★★Toxics Sampling at the Bonfol LandfillGP01U4PCompleted★★★★Toxics Sampling at the Bonfol LandfillGP01U4RCompleted★★★★Toxics Sampling at the Bonfol LandfillGP01U4SCompleted★★★★Toxics Action Occupation of Toxic Landfill in BonfolGP01U7CCompleted★★★★Toxics Action Occupation of Toxic Landfill in BonfolGP01U7DCompleted★★★★Toxics Action Occupation of Toxic Landfill in BonfolGP01U7ECompleted★★★★View AllGP01TVNToxics Action Discovery of Illegal Toxic Landfill in BexGreenpeace activists revealed an illegal toxic dumpsite on the premises of chemical company FEBEX SA in Bex. Here, after cutting the lock of the fence, activists enter the site.In original language:Chemie Aktion Entdeckung der illegalen Deponie in BexWir befinden uns im Jahre 2000 n. Chr. Die ganze Welt wird von den Chemiekonzernen vergiftet... Die ganze Welt? Nein! Ein von unbeugsamen Mitmenschen bevölkertes Dorf am Rande der Schweiz hört nicht auf, den Giftmischern Widerstand zu leisten. Heute Morgen haben vierzig Aktivisten der Umweltschutzorganisation Greenpeace im Waadtländischen Bex auf dem Gelände der Chemiefirma Febex SA ein illegales Giftmülllager aufgedeckt. Die Aktivisten markierten ausserdem um das Gelände liegende Chemiemüll-Altlasten sowie eine von der Firma Febex noch benutzte illegale Giftmülldeponie. Anschliessend an die Aktion in Bex markierten die Greenpeace Aktivisten eine weitere giftige Altlast in der benachbarten Gemeinde Ollon VD.Locations:Bonfol-Europe, East Europe, Alpine Countries-SwitzerlandDate:5 Jul, 2000Credit:© Greenpeace / Ex-Press / David AdairMaximum size:3341px X 2352pxRestrictions:Images ok for use in all Greenpeace campaigns, products and brochures. NOT FOR ADVERTISING OR COMMERCIAL USE.Keywords:Actions and protests-Day-Greenpeace activists-KWCI (GPI)-Landfills-Outdoors-Toxics (campaign title)Shoot:Toxics Action at Illegal Toxic Dump Site in Bex SwitzerlandThis morning forty Greenpeace activists revealed an illegal toxic dumpsite on the premises of chemical company FEBEX SA in Bex. The activists also marked other chemical landfills around the FEBEX premises, one of those being a landfill which is still used by FEBEX as an illegal toxic dumpsite. The dumpsite of the Basel chemical company in Bonfol, which is being occupied by Greenpeace since eight weeks, is a national problem. Other companies have caused similar contaminated sites. Greenpeace filed a complaint today against 'persons unknown', because the contaminated site in Bex was left behind by the predecessor companies of the Company FEBEX SA. It is unclear whether the company Ciba Geigy in Monthey, which has been drawing raw materials from Bex since World War One, also used the landfill. Greenpeace marked the borders of the contaminated site and the illegal landfill and gave the company a black FEBEX Bonfol barrel, representing the polluter of the old landfill in Bex.Following this action in Bex Greenpeace activists marked another toxic landfill in the neighboring town of Ollon. Here, 120,000 tons of residues from waste incineration plant Satom were stored.
