There are areas of the world at the limits of livability. Places where degradation, waste and pollution levels have exceeded every tolerable threshold to allow flora, fauna and man to survive in a decent way. Scattered everywhere on Earth, rivers, seas, cities and towns where for one reason or another it is difficult to spend a normal existence and where the environment has now undergone a distortion that is difficult to block.
Let’s see some of them together.
Among them, the Citarium River in Indonesia is a clear example of terrible river pollution. Images of the Indonesian waterway show us a level of contamination five thousand times higher than allowed, and studies attest, due to pollution, almost 50 thousand deaths every year. Responsible for all this are above all the textile factories that you meet along the river.
Of course, it is impossible not to mention Chernobyl in Ukraine among the most polluted places in the world. The story is well known: in the town of Pripyat there were about 50 thousand inhabitants, before April 26, 1986. That date was a watershed, because the accident at the reactor of the Chernobynuclear power plant caused one of the most notorious and devastating environmental disasters in history that affected the whole of Europe. The area, after being abandoned for decades, is still contaminated and with high radiation.
Then we have Zabol, in Iran, which was, until 2017, the most polluted city in the world. In detail, the first in the ranking of the concentration of PM2.5 particulate matter in the air.
Sumgait, in the Republic of Azerbaijan, on the other hand, was, until a few years ago, one of the cities with the highest levels of industrial pollution on the planet.
Let’s not forget Agbogbloshie, a suburb of the African city of Accra, the capital of Ghana, which is the largest electronic waste dump in the world, and finally Norilsk in Russia which is not only very polluted, but is also among the coldest on Earth.
In these territories, daily life is terrible, due to degradation and lack of environmental remediation.
Environmental remediation is necessary in the presence of polluted soils, or, for example, contaminated water. In fact, waste management also extends to the protection of the soil, its preservation and the remediation of sites.
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