Wednesday, 28. April 2004
Topic: weiss nicht - on April 28, 2004 at 2:57:00 PM CEST
The Garbage Dilemma
Plenty of garbage but no place to put it
Hungary's being literally covered in waste -- both household and industrial. As the country soon enters the European Union (EU), it will have to provide as many as 100 modern disposal sites by 2010. The problem is that there is no place to put all this garbage as no-one wants to have a dump in their own backyard. No fewer than nine local governments held plebiscites over whether to allow dumps to be set up in their neighbourhoods. Only one settlement so far voted in favour of becoming a regional disposal center while the others rejected such a proposal outright.
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