End-of-life ships used to be dismantled and disposed of in Europe. These are now exported to Asia for ship-breaking with vastly inferior environmental, health & safety standards. Extremely dangerous dioxins and other lethal Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are just some of the toxins being breathed in by workers and local people in the vicinity of ship-breaking.

For more information, see Greenpeace.

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