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GROWING = GARBAGE * China - As economy grows, so do garbage woes
Visitors can smell this village long before they see it
Zhanglidong,China -AP, by CHI-CHI ZHANG -11 Oct 2009: -- More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty their loads in a landfill as big as 20 football fields... In less than five years, the Zhengzhou Comprehensive Waste Treatment Landfill has overwhelmed this otherwise pristine village of about 1,000 people. Peaches and cherries rot on trees, infested with insect life drawn by the smell. Fields lie unharvested, contaminated by toxic muck. Every day, another 100 or so tons of garbage arrive from nearby Zhengzhou, a provincial capital of 8 million... (AP Photo/Andy Wong: In this photo taken on Sept. 1, 2009, a village woman with her meal reacts as she stands near a rubbish dumpsite near a village in Zhanglidong, Henan province, China. The acrid aroma of rotting refuse and sewage spews forth from a landfill as big as 20 football fields, spoiling everything around, including the lives of the locals. Peaches and cherries rot on the trees, infested with the larvae of insects drawn by the smell. Hundreds of acres of corn, gourds and tomatoes sit unharvested, the soil underneath contaminated by the muck leaking from the landfill)Labels: markets
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