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WTF? Vessel Too Toxic for Bangladeshi Ship Breakers Sent to UK
Posted on July 03, 2008
Image by Flickr user Peter_32Ship breakers in Bangladesh toil in conditions that resemble hell on earth, breaking rusting hulks by hand for little more than a dollar a day. But should we allow a former French aircraft carrier considered too dangerous for even these workers to be sent to the UK - complete with 700 tons of asbestos?Tankers, trawlers, freighters and destroyers - smashed, cut, rusting and smoking - are packed close together from left to right, stranded in various stages of demolition along six miles of beach. 35, 000 men swarm over their ghostly remains, dissecting them with littl...
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