WEEK 6 January 29th to February 4th

   DANGEROUS GARBAGE

   A garbage disposal plant outside the city of Bergen (Norway) has released five times more Dioxin than they're legally allowed. The management says they have no idea how this has happened, but "recent controls show that it's an empirical fact". The rules say, strangely enough, that there must be at least two more controls, though, to satisfy protocol. As it ever seems, the laws and regulations are on the polluters' side. The first one will be done in two weeks and the second discontinued in March. If it's shown then that the releases continue at its high level, then a formal decision will be made. In the meantime the pollution continues.
   Dioxin is a so-called endocrine disrupter. It's interfering with an organism's hormone production and causes cancer and countless other damaging and deadly effects.
   The legal limit, in Norway, as in every country in the world, is set far above the maximum release recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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