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Maldives trashed

  • 21-05-2012 9:01am
    #1
    jkforde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18073917

    this is truly disgusting, anyone considering travelling to the Maldives needs to reconsider until they start acting responsibly. imagine when this place gets flooded by the next typhoon..

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  • #2
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,168 ✭✭✭SeanW


    jkforde wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18073917

    this is truly disgusting, anyone considering travelling to the Maldives needs to reconsider until they start acting responsibly. imagine when this place gets flooded by the next typhoon..
    Meh, the Maldives have been taken over by Islamists, they closed a bunch of tourist resorts for "un Islamic activities" or something of that sort, I would imagine people are shunning the place anyway.


  • #3
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Third World country with an out of control waste problem - shocker! Must have been a slow news day for the BBC.


  • #4
    zagmund
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭zagmund


    In other news, dump found to be attractive habitat for flies. Dump also found to be dusty.

    z


  • #5
    Macha
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 6,376 Mod ✭✭✭✭Macha


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Third World country with an out of control waste problem - shocker! Must have been a slow news day for the BBC.

    The video is an extract from a BBC documentary shown on Sunday night.

    The interesting thing about the Maldives is that it relies on a pristine image for its tourism but in its current form, this tourism is a key driver for what can be seen in the video.


  • #6
    zagmund
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭zagmund


    But seriously.

    The tone of the reporting just seems a little naive. He seems to be shocked that the Maldives "of all places" has a dump. Just because it's full of loved up honeymoon couples with their personal chefs & buters doesn't mean it doesn't need to churn out waste products requiring disposal.

    Sure, it looks like it's not terribly well maintained or managed, but the fact that the islands and their 5* hotels produce ****loads of waste every single day shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

    In my view the report would benefit from focusing on proper processing of the waste, and not so much the fact that the waste exists.

    z


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  • #7
    Macha
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    To be honest, the documentary wasn't about waste or recycling and I quite liked the way it turned from a travel documentary into one that exposed some serious environmental threats to the locations being shown off. He touched on over-fishing, rising sea levels, increasing sea temperatures and the waste issue.

    A lot of people wouldn't tune into an overtly environmental documentary but this one even caught me unawares.


  • #8
    Red Neck Hughie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Red Neck Hughie


    Landfills of today will (hopefully) be the mines of tomorrow, if only for a short while. Some samples here
    http://www.waste-management-world.com/index/landfill.html


  • #9
    richiek67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 305 ✭✭richiek67


    Yeah, I saw that too. It was on that series with that guy, (forget his name) going around the Indian ocean, which I think is very good at highlighting the state of our world. One of the islands was being used as a dumping ground for all the waste coming from all the other islands.
    I had hoped to go there some day but if I am going to contribute to that then forget it.
    This poor Planet cannot sustain this number of people and the waste we produce. If we are not going to be smart and demand manufactures to use more environmentally friendly packaging and curb the massive waste within the fishing around the world, then I'm afraid within 20 years the food chain will just topple.....
    I think major family planning needs to be brought in globally, in my opinion.

    :(:(


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