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Keywords
Accidents
Air pollution
Aluminium
Buses
Chemical industry
Day
KWCI (GPI)
Land pollution
Local population
Outdoors
Sadness
Toxic waste
Toxics (campaign title)
Water pollution
Toxic Sludge Victims in Hungary
Inhabitants of Kolontár in a bus returning to their destroyed hometown. The evacuated part of Kolontár is now open for citizens to move back to their houses, but the cleaning process is still not finished. The toxic sludge flood occurred on the 4th October and it was caused by the rupture of a red sludge reservoir at an alumina plant.
Unique identifier:
GP027LP
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
15/10/2010
Locations:
Central Europe
,
Hungary
,
Kolontár
Credit line:
© Rene Huemer / Greenpeace
Size:
2500px × 1667px 824KB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Shoot:
Toxic Sludge Flood in Hungary
Greenpeace activists visit the town of Kolontar ten days after it was hit by the toxic sludge flood caused by the rupture of a red sludge reservoir at an alumina plant. Parts of the town were evacuated and the inhabitants are now returning to their damaged homes, still red from the toxic sludge.
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