‘Even The Sun Is Black’: Albania’s Toxic Pollution Crisis
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The Albanian city of Elbasan, for several days during the summer, choked in a dense cloud of stinging smoke from its notorious steelworks. Environmental inspectors who rushed to two fires discovered 318 tonnes of toxic industrial dust stored for months in a chrome factory, AlbChrome, with no transfer contracts for its treatment or safe disposal. The site, owned by the Turkish group Yildirim, was temporarily shut. It is the latest in a litany of disasters…
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