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infodawg OP t1_j5egttb wrote

Sorry you have to deal with this shit, any of the local redditors having to deal with this???? :( Sorry my frens, how fucked.

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autotldr t1_j5ehxor wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)

> Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countries end up accumulating behind a trash barrier in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia during the wet weather of winter and early spring.

> This week, the barrier once again became the outer edge of a massive floating waste dump crammed with plastic bottles, rusty barrels, used tires, household appliances, driftwood and other garbage picked up by the river from its tributaries.

> The river fencing installed by a Bosnian hydroelectric plant, a few kilometers upstream from its dam near Visegrad, has turned the city into an unwilling regional waste site, local environmental activists complain.

Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: River^#1 waste^#2 environmental^#3 Visegrad^#4 Bosnia^#5

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infodawg OP t1_j5ek9a2 wrote

Replying to autotldr (#1,435,893)

Not great, not terrible. I would have gone with:

>Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countries end up accumulating behind a trash barrier in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia during the wet weather of winter and early spring.
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>Some 10,000 cubic meters (more than 353,000 cubic feet) of waste are estimated to have amassed behind the Drina River trash barrier in recent days, Furtula said. The same amount was pulled in recent years from that area of the river.
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>The countries of the region have made little progress in building effective, environmentally sound trash disposal systems despite seeking membership in the European Union and adopting some of the EU's laws and regulations.

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autotldr t1_j5eni5w wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)

> Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countries end up accumulating behind a trash barrier in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia during the wet weather of winter and early spring.

> This week, the barrier once again became the outer edge of a massive floating waste dump crammed with plastic bottles, rusty barrels, used tires, household appliances, driftwood and other garbage picked up by the river from its tributaries.

> The river fencing installed by a Bosnian hydroelectric plant, a few kilometers upstream from its dam near Visegrad, has turned the city into an unwilling regional waste site, local environmental activists complain.

Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: River^#1 waste^#2 environmental^#3 Visegrad^#4 Bosnia^#5

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mickdeb t1_j5er49j wrote

I the recent months, i came to the realisation that Europe can be really advanced by certain places and be the worlds dumo in other...

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infodawg OP t1_j5eryoc wrote

Replying to mickdeb (#1,436,526)

Like any other place on the planet, really. This is why it was so offensive when Trump referred to developing countries as "shitholes", it was a horrible insult, and completely hypocritical given the problems faced in the United States. Wholesale pilfering of public land by the oligarchs, for example, mining, timber, grazing, theft of resources, undrinkable water supplies in some places, crumbling bridges and roadways, the homeless sleeping in camps on the street corners of hallowed cities.

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mickdeb t1_j5eswzv wrote

Replying to infodawg (#1,436,586)

Yes, even here in Quebec, Canada we have places where it really is a different world. It just feels out of place to see these thing happens but at the same time education is not the same everywhere, even in the same country

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srbistan t1_j5ezjqo wrote

Replying to infodawg (#1,436,946)

there are open unattended waste dumps upstream and every time you have major rain this happens. but it's ok mate, when it comes up to their necks they'll just move to another planet... oh!

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srbistan t1_j5f8em1 wrote

Replying to infodawg (#1,437,451)

believe it or not there is much, much bigger problem with that watershed ... it is a disused gold mine Stolice, which has a huge reservoir of toxic sludge (cyanide, arsen, mercury) deteriorating and threatening to burst into the drina river (upstream to danube and shit lot of people, mind you).

we are talking about hundreds of tons of stuff and nobody gives a shit as the last owner of the mine was some kind of political figure (reads : war profiteer turned politician). and even if a good fairy was to appear and cough out the dough to fix it all i still doubt it would be fixed, instead local trash would find a way to misappropriate funds, not giving two fucks what happens tomorrow.

look for "people are tribal" amos's monologue from SF book "the expanse" if you wonder "how come" while reading this...

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Snowboarding_kook t1_j5fs1tu wrote

We camped on the edge of this river while travelling around Europe in a van. It was definitely one of the more polluted areas. Between the highway and the river, there are little hideaways. Looked like a literal garbage dump. It's a shame because the area is so naturally beautiful

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