Thursday, November 22, 2012

#AudioMo - Day 22 - Morton Toxic Waste Burial




For #AudioMo Day 22 I research a topic that was once very close to home and stopped us fully exploring our local area. I grew up in Morton Derbyshire where there was a suspected Toxic Waste Burial Site, We were always told never to go in to a particular field which was rumoured to be the location for the burial. An unknown quantity of the chemical Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TDCC) or Dioxin for short was buried there by the Coalite Company after an explosion at their Bolsover Chemical Plant. I managed to find a great report that was written in the New Scientist on the 7th of May 1981, I have embedded the article below for you to have a read for yourself. 


I've embedded a Google map so you can see where the location of the opencast once was, this is the suspected location of the buried Dioxin.


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