Kuwait. The black cloud is now visible from space: the fire that has been raging for several days in the Sulaibiya landfill, the largest in the world, which contains over 7 million tyres.
It is feared a environmental disaster international level: the second in this area of theSouth Asia.
In 1991 because ofOver 700 oil wells on fire an environmental catastrophe occurred which had repercussions across the Earth with fumes and toxic substances that remained in the atmosphere up to 1800 meters high and poured down with the rains, destroying vast areas of forest and crops.
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The new catastrophe starts from Al Jahra desert region, where it is not the first time that fires have occurred where over 7 million tires are stored, the heat that has reached this year record temperatures up to 53,6 degrees It was the trigger for the flames that quickly engulfed the landfill.
Il Kuwait for economic and political reasons it has not regulated the disposal or recycling of waste, for this reason Tyres from all over the world arrive at the Sulaibiya landfill. There were two other serious incidents in both 2012 and 2020 but the local government did not implement measures to prevent further fires.
The burning of tires generated the spill of large quantities of heavy metals which risk contaminating entire territories even beyond the Kuwaiti borders. The smoke released by the flames, local sources say, did not reach the inhabited areas of Kuwait thanks to the wind that blew towards the Persian Gulf.
But column of smoke is reaching, just like it happened 30 years ago the atmosphere. And it is already visible even from several kilometers away from the point of combustion. A new international environmental disaster is feared.
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