List of waste disposal incidents
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| Incident | Description | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acerinox accident Acerinox accident The Acerinox accident was an incident of radioactive contamination in Southern Spain. In May 1998, a caesium-137 source managed to pass through the monitoring equipment in a Acerinox scrap metal reprocessing plant in Los Barrios, Spain. When melted, the caesium-137 caused the release of a... |
radioactive contamination | 1998 | Spain |
| Agriculture Street Landfill Agriculture Street Landfill The Agriculture Street Landfill was a dump in New Orleans, Louisiana. The area was later developed for residential use, with unfortunate environmental consequences. It became a Superfund cleanup site.-A city dump:... |
United States | ||
| Atari video game burial Atari video game burial The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site, undertaken by American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc. in 1983. The goods disposed of through the burial are generally believed to have been... |
1983 | United States | |
| Bajzë Rail Station Bajzë Rail Station The Bajzë Rail Station is a railroad station located in Bajzë, Albania. It serves Albanian Railways as a freight line between Bajzë and Shkodër with an extension to the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica operated by Railways of Montenegro. Two freight trains pass daily through the station, hauling... |
chemical contamination | 1991 | Albania |
| Corby toxic waste case | United Kingdom | ||
| 2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic waste dump | 2006 | Côte d'Ivoire | |
| Cuyahoga River Cuyahoga River The Cuyahoga River is located in Northeast Ohio in the United States. Outside of Ohio, the river is most famous for being "the river that caught fire", helping to spur the environmental movement in the late 1960s... |
United States | ||
| Friendly Floatees Friendly Floatees Friendly Floatees are plastic bath toys marketed by The First Years, Inc. and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements including those of a consignment of Friendly Floatees washed into the Pacific Ocean in... |
flotsam | 1992 | Ocean |
| Goiânia accident Goiânia accident The Goiânia accident was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, at Goiânia, in the Brazilian State of Goiás after an old radiotherapy source was taken from an abandoned hospital site in the city... |
radioactive contamination | 1987 | Brazil |
| Khian Sea waste disposal incident Khian Sea waste disposal incident On August 31, 1986, the cargo barge Khian Sea, registered in Liberia, was loaded with more than 14,000 tons of toxic ash from waste incinerators in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania... |
1986 | ||
| Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill The TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill occurred just before 1 a.m. on Monday December 22, 2008, when an ash dike ruptured at an solid waste containment area at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, USA. of coal fly ash slurry was... |
coal fly ash slurry spill | 2008 | United States |
| Gold mine at Kingston, Queensland Kingston, Queensland Kingston is a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia. Kingston is a predominantly residential suburb, with a low mix of commercial and retail areas. It is the home of the Kingston Butter Factory... |
toxic waste | Australia | |
| Lake Karachay Lake Karachay Lake Karachay , sometimes spelled Karachai, is a small lake in the southern Ural mountains in western Russia. Starting in 1951 the Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near the town of... |
radioactive waste dump site | Russia | |
| Love Canal Love Canal Love Canal was a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, located in the white collar LaSalle section of the city. It officially covers 36 square blocks in the far southeastern corner of the city, along 99th Street and Read Avenue... |
toxic waste dump | United States | |
| Martin County sludge spill Martin County sludge spill The Martin County Sludge Spill was an accident that occurred after midnight on October 11, 2000 when the bottom of a coal sludge impoundment owned by Massey Energy in Martin County, Kentucky, USA, broke into an abandoned underground mine below. The slurry came out of the mine openings, sending an... |
water pollution | 2000 | United States |
| Mayapuri Mayapuri Mayapuri is a locality in West Delhi. It used to be a major hub of small scale industries, but following recent government sanctions, most of the heavy metal industries moved out... |
radioactive contamination | 1986 | India |
| Minamata Bay Minamata Bay Minamata is a small factory town. Minamata Bay is a bay on the west coast of Kyūshū island, located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The bay is part of the larger Shiranui Sea which is sandwiched between the coast of the Kyūshū mainland and the off-lying islands of Kumamoto and Nagasaki... mercury poisoning |
cause of Minamata disease Minamata disease ', sometimes referred to as , is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, narrowing of the field of vision and damage to hearing and speech. In extreme cases, insanity, paralysis, coma, and death... |
1932-68 | Japan |
| Mobro 4000 Mobro 4000 The Mobro 4000 was a barge made infamous in 1987 for hauling the same load of trash along the east coast of North America from New York to Belize and back until a way was found to dispose of the garbage... garbage barge |
1987 | United States | |
| Munisport Munisport Munisport Landfill is a closed landfill located in North Miami, Florida adjacent to a low-income community, a regional campus of Florida International University, Oleta River State Park , and estuarine Biscayne Bay.... |
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| Radioactive waste dumping by the 'Ndrangheta Radioactive waste dumping by the 'Ndrangheta The 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organization from Calabria has been involved in radioactive waste dumping since the 1980s. Ships with toxic and radioactive waste were sunk off the Italian coast... |
radioactive waste | Italy | |
| Saint John, New Brunswick harbour cleanup | sewerage | Canada | |
| Seveso disaster Seveso disaster The Seveso disaster was an industrial accident that occurred around 12:37 pm July 10, 1976, in a small chemical manufacturing plant approximately north of Milan in the Lombardy region in Italy... |
toxic pollutant | 1976 | Italy |
| Spodden Valley asbestos controversy Spodden Valley asbestos controversy The Spodden Valley asbestos controversy arose in May 2004 when approximately of land in Spodden Valley in Rochdale, England, formerly used by Turner Brothers Asbestos Company , and the site of the world's largest asbestos textile factory, was sold to MMC Estates, a property developer... |
2004 | United Kingdom | |
| Sydney Tar Ponds Sydney Tar Ponds The Sydney Tar Ponds are a hazardous waste site on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.Located on the eastern shore of Sydney Harbour in the former city of Sydney , the Tar Ponds form a tidal estuary at the mouth of Muggah Creek, a freshwater stream that empties into the harbour... |
hazardous waste | Canada | |
| Syringe Tide Syringe Tide Syringe Tide refers to a period during 1987-88 in New Jersey, where significant amounts of medical waste and raw garbage washed up onto a stretch of Atlantic Ocean beaches in Jersey Shore communities in Monmouth and Ocean counties. This forced the closing of all the beaches in the two counties... |
1987-88 | United States | |
| Techa River Techa River The Techa River is a river on the eastern flank of the southern Ural Mountains noted for its nuclear contamination. It is about 240 km long and its basin is 7,500 square kilometers. It begins at the formerly-secret nuclear-processing town of Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast about 80 km northwest of... |
radioactive contamination | Russia | |
| Teckomatorp Teckomatorp Teckomatorp is a locality situated in Svalöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 1,644 inhabitants in 2005. It has a train station on the Malmö - Teckomatorp - Helsingborg railway line.... |
1970s | Sweden | |
| Times Beach, Missouri Times Beach, Missouri Times Beach, Missouri was a small town of 2,240 residents in St. Louis County, Missouri, 17 miles southwest of St. Louis and 2 mi east of Eureka, Missouri. The town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to a dioxin scare that made national headlines... |
dioxin scare | 1983 | United States |
| Tonoshō, Kagawa Tonosho, Kagawa is a town in Shōzu District, Kagawa, Japan. It is located on the island of Shōdoshima in the Inland Sea. Small islands on the Inland Sea, including Teshima, belong to its administrative area. As of 2008, the town has an estimated population of 15,676 and a density of 211 persons per km²... |
industrial waste dump | Japan | |
| Tui mine Tui mine The Tui mine is an abandoned mine on the western slopes of Mount Te Aroha in the Kaimai Range of New Zealand. It is considered to be the most contaminated site in the country, following the clean up of the former Fruitgrowers Chemical Company site at Mapua, Nelson.-History:In the 1960s, the Tui... tailings dam |
New Zealand | ||
| View-Master factory supply well | United States |