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| MK_SHIPBREAK_003 Bangladesh shipbreakers have illegally beached toxic ships for scrapping on the Chittagong coast for the last 30 years, according to the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, a global coalition of environmental, human and labor rights non-governmental organizations working for safe and clean ship recycling. The work is done on or around the beach by unskilled labourers who travel from the poorest parts to work for a pittance, largely without any protection. The sites see asbestos thrown freely about, the dust filling the air and the toxic smoke from metal cutting drifts amongst the workers. Heavy metals run freely into the sand along with the waste lubricants to pollute the beach and sea. Although there are safer and cleaner methods for recycling ships, cash buyers continue to sell their vessels to the poorest countries of South Asia to gain maximum profit///An old fisherman tries to catch some fish even though he knows the ships‘ toxics have poisoned them
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