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| In risky recycling venture, Gazans burn plastic for fuel |
| 2022-08-27 |
| [AnNahar] Living in one of the poorest parts of the Middle East and facing some of the region's highest fuel costs, Paleostinians in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... are burning plastic to make affordable diesel. It's an economic and practical solution in a territory blockaded by Israel for 15 years, but one which poses serious environmental and health risks, experts say. "Have you experienced Mesothelioma, Lung Damage, Hemmorhoids, Planter Fasciitus, or other maladies due to the Zionist Oppressor forcing you to make a plastic-recycling still?" Standing before rusty metal machinery and fuel containers, Mahmoud al-Kafarneh described how he and his brothers came up with their plastic recycling project. "We started experimenting to implement the project in 2018, through searching the internet," he told AFP, at the site in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza. "We failed a few times; after eight months we succeeded in extracting the fuel." The distilling setup features a series of crude-looking tanks and connecting pipes set up outside on the dirt. The process starts with the burning of wood in a furnace below a large mud-covered tank holding up to 1.5 tons (tons) of shredded plastic. When the plastic melts, the vapors flow through a pipe into a water tank where they cool and drip as fuel into containers, ready to be sold. Black-grey smoke pours from several pipes extending above the furnace and the tank holding the plastic. Only a few of the workers wear face masks and gloves as they melt bagfuls of shredded plastic. Their clothing is stained black. Kafarneh said no-one has experienced health problems since starting work at the site, which sits beside olive trees and away from residential buildings. "We follow all safety procedures at work", he said. But Ahmed Hillis, director of Gaza's National Institute for the Environment and Development, fears an environmental catastrophe from this unregulated industry. "The method used is rudimentary and very harmful to the workers," mainly because they inhale toxic fumes, he told AFP. Burning plastic releases dioxins, mercury and other toxic gases which pose "a threat to vegetation, human and animal health", according to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Environment Program. Hillis adds another danger of burning plastic, which is derived from petroleum hydrocarbons. The tank is "a time bomb because it could explode" from the heat, he says. In Gaza, where exchanges of fire between Paleostinian holy warriors and Israel for three days earlier this month killed at least 49 Paleostinians, health risks are outweighed by economic reality. |
| Posted by:Fred |