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There's an Island Made of Toxic Trash Rising Out of the Sea in the Maldives
Sunday, November 2, 2014 19:22
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Each year, approximately one million tourists visit the island nation Maldives for its sunny warm weather and stunning natural beauty.
But there's an ugly consequence of all those visitors, along with the Maldives’ own 395,000 residents: the combined trash accumulated is a headache for the small country.
To deal with the problem, the government decided in December 1991 to use a separate island as the final destination for the huge amount of waste produced by the tourism industry …. http://globalvoicesonline.org
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2014/11/theres-island-made-of-toxic-trash.html
