Paradise Or Perhaps

[emmie]

not,
hard to believe he is not sitting in some land fill dump

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/11/citarum-river-pollution-p_n_5132799.html?ncid=webmail1

[emmie]

all the photo's are bad, crikey

[New Judge]

I've seen some of these pictutes elsewhere, emmie.

I'm not too sure what the publishers are trying to say. Apparently the waste is stuff that should have gone elsewhere and the rules which Indonesia has regarding rubbish disposal are being completely ignored.

Greenpeace (surprise, surprise) has tried to lay the blame at the door of some of the "High Street" names such as Gap, H&M and Adidas. Apparently some of the waste is being dumped by a mob called PT Gistex which has had "a business relationship" with those firms. Quite how it can be the fault of Gap that somebody who they had a business relationship with dumps waste into a river abroad escapes me for the moment.

Essentially the Indonesians need to sort this out. It's clearly been going on for a considerable time.

[DrFilth]

emmie not all waste floats on the top for the world to see but don't worry when the people start catching cancer they will blame the cigs

have seen a few photo's of rivers like that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ZS4uocUew
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za-HlbNFg-k

[DrFilth]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDkVFm4CoVM

[New Judge]

I've also seen the rubbish island in the Maldives, db. You pass it on your way to and from Male heading to the west and it seems they set fire to a lot of the garbage. They have a particular problem there in that conventional rubbish facilities are not really feasible but I agree they could do a bit more in the way of recycling. Indonesia is not constrained in the same way and the river in the photographs is a disgrace. But it's not the fault of Adidas & Co.

[emmie]

whichever way you look at this, it can't be good for the people, nor the environment.