Maldives

05.01.2009 Side

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When the Maldives are tried, the mind is always a very nice holiday. But the garbage left by tourists began to play the danger bells on the island, since they were flooded from the island.

[[T]] Maldivs that decorate a lot of people's holiday dream come to a day with garbage they are now hosting. Maldivler, consisting of 1192 and found in the Indian Ocean, is grouped as 26 coral islands. The candidate for 270 thousand people comes from 650 tourists every year and produces garbage in every tourist form. The first trash moved in 1992, there are different areas for different garbage. Garbages are transported daily with the ship to Thilafushi, and they are sent to different regions around the island by leaving according to their varieties there. The authorities turned Thilafushi at the beginning of 1990s into a garbage island because tourists can not cope with the amount of garbage they created. [

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Thilfushi, like many islands in Maldives, is only one meter above sea level. Garbages located in Thilfushi with rising sea level with the increase of global warming are the danger of sea mixing. More importantly, heavy metals containing toxic substances such as mercury, lead and cadmium, are also compromised by sea ecology.

Plastic water bottles are one of the biggest problems in the island. The garbage of plastic bottles covered a seven-kilometer area. In the first time, the pit was scraped for these trash but the amount in time increased so much that sand bottles could not cover. Some of the trash need to be crushed by the buldozer because some of them need to be purified from germs, some garbage containing asbestos can be dangerous.

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