Environmental issues

6.84/38 Household waste being compacted before being shipped out in containers to landfill site, Essex.

6.84/10x Domestic waste collection, Tower Hamlets, London 1993.

1.0605-97 Industrial and domestic rubbish accumulate at side of canal near Gent, Belgium.

Rubbish in Grand Union canal, London 2004.

dumped rubbish

Skips at a waste management centre by the Lee Navigation canal

1.0614/529 Technician samples industrial waste stored awaiting incineration at the Rechem plant, Fawley, Southampton.

1.0614/532 Technician samples industrial waste stored awaiting incineration at the Rechem plant, Fawley, Southampton. March 1993.

1.0614/571 Technician samples industrial waste stored awaiting incineration at the Rechem plant, Fawley, Southampton. March 1993.

1.0614/785 Sue Bateman, laboratory technician, analyses contaminated industrial waste at Shanks and McEwan waste disposal company, Hartlepool 1993.

1.0614/695 Educational visit to landfill waste disposal site, Essex.

Sewage pours into the river Rupel at Rumst, Belgium. Together with industrial effluents and pollution from its tributaries this ensures that nothing can live in this fouled water.

Sewage pours into the river Rupel at Rumst, Belgium. Together with industrial effluentsand pollution from its tributaries this ensures that nothing can live in this fouled water.

Domestic sewage & industrial waste pours into the riverTees at Portrack, Teeside.

Domestic sewage & industrial waste pours into the riverTees at Portrack, Teeside. Together with industrial effluents and pollution from its tributaries this pollution load ends up i the North Sea.

Skips at a waste management centre by the Lee Navigation canal

ICI Wilton, Middlesborough. Flue gas emissions here have been responsible for a number of uncontrolled chemical leaks forcing the evacuation of the neighbouring residential areas.

Chemical factory flare stack, Antwerp industrial complex on the River Schelde. Thick clouds of unburnt hydrocarbons & other chemicals drift in the wind to fall over nearby city, farmlands & waterways.

1.076/245 Metal refinery pours smoke, pollutants and heavy metal particles into the pretty fishing port, Muros, Galicia, Spain 1992.

1.076/242 Metal refinery pours smoke, pollutants and heavy metal particles into the fishing port, Muros, Galicia, Spain 1992.

Testing residential land for soil contamination

Testing residential land for soil contamination

Testing residential land for soil contamination

Testing residential land for soil contamination

Testing residential land for soil contamination

Testing residential land for soil contamination

Testing residential land for soil contamination

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1.0614-786 Taking samples for analysis from lagoon of leachate draining from landfill site, Essex.

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1.0614/352 Used tyre dump in old quarry near Doncaster, Yorkshire.

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