WASTE MANAGEMENT: Coal combustion creates millions of tonnes of coal ash and scrubber waste. The coal waste is either piped using water, or transported as dry ash to ponds, which can leach and contaminate water sources with heavy metals, mercury and other toxins and pollutants. In this picture, old cooling water area near Afsin-Elbistan A and B Plants, Çogulhan-Kahramanmaras, South East Turkey. Local people claim that the plants have been responsible for serious health effects and that the ash produced dries up rivers and agricultural lands in the area. 03/01/2014
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