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November 13, 2012
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There are signs telling you not to visit this beach, which isn't sand, it's asbestos - industrial waste from a factory just up the coast, now long since abandoned.

People ignore the signs, as you can tell by all the writing they've done, scraping the grey surface off the white underneath.

How much asbestos dust blows off this beach in windy weather? The village of Nonza (from where I took this shot) is 150m (500') above the beach, so maybe not much blows up so high, but where does it go? There are places lower down just along the coast, and boats passing by.

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Mood: Sadness *karikaiyuk Nov 18, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
such a waste... its a beautiful view!
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~timid-wolf Nov 14, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
What are the old walls in the lower right?
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*coshipi Nov 14, 2012
I don't know. I wondered that myself, but didn't go down there to investigate!
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~timid-wolf Nov 16, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Lol, I dont blame. Its quite a sad situation, and its happening still everywhere
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~HedgehogTiger Nov 14, 2012
You can see that it is a place of dead, how criminal!
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*coshipi Nov 14, 2012
Yup. Putting the mine and the factory there in the first place, they had the excuse that they didn't know. Keeping going after they knew, and not cleaning it up - that was definitely criminal.
It would be quite impossible to clean up completely, but so much more difficult because they kept on doing it for so long, and getting more and more difficult as the years go by. But it's unlikely anyone will even try to clean it up now, I think.
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